Francis Draper Lewis

Francis Draper Lewis was a Pennsylvania lawyer who co-founded the law firm Morgan Lewis at Philadelphia in 1873 with Charles Eldridge Morgan, Jr.

Early life and marriage

Born in Boston on August 29, 1849, his parents were Ann Homer (née Kidder) Lewis and Joseph W. Lewis, Lewis Brothers & Company dry-goods wholesale merchant.[1][a][b]

On April 28, 1887, he married Mary Humphreys Chandler, daughter of Charles Wesley Chandler (1833 - 1882) and Julia Adelaide Peabody.[c]

Education and career

Lewis graduated from Amherst College in 1869, then from Harvard Law School in 1871.[8] He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1872 and began his practice in the offices of John Christian Bullitt.[9]

On March 10, 1873, Lewis and Charles Eldridge Morgan, Jr. co-founded law firm Morgan Lewis,[10] which became Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in 1883.

Notes

1. Lewis was a descendant of James Draper, an early settler of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and of Puritan pioneer Georges Lewes (1600 - 1663), an early settler at Plymouth Colony. Lewis, a clothier-turned-farmer, also became an early surveyor of highways, and was appointed constable of the town of Barnstable in 1651.[2]
2. His first cousin, William Draper Lewis,[3] became Dean of University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1896.
3. Chandler was the great-granddaughter of noted American pioneer physician,[4] Jesse Chandler (1764 – 1814), who succumbed to a severe fever known as "the cold plague" in 1814,[5] (later referenced as "Erysipelatous fever" and "Epidemic Erysipelatous Inflammation");[6] Dr. Chandler's brother, Captain John Chandler, is the namesake of Chandlersville, Ohio. [7]

References

1. Hunsicker, C. S. Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; a history, by Clifton Swenk Hunsicker, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., USA, 1923, page 632. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
2. Swift, C. F. reprint of Amos Otis Papers, in Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, Volume 2, F. B. & F. P. Goss Publishers and Printers, Barnstable, Mass., USA, 1890, page 118. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
3. Draper, Thomas Waln-Morgan The Drapers in America, J. Polhemus Printing Company, New York, USA, 1892, pages 67-68. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
4. Chandler, Barb "Emigration and Settlement", Edmund's Community Courier, February 20, 2015. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
5. Ohio HS Ohio History, Volume 3, Ohio Historical Society, 1890, page 254. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
6. Allen, J. A. "Epidemic Erysipelatous Fever", by Jonathan A. Allen, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, reprinted in the New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, 1844.
7. Cutter, W. R. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, Volume 4, by William Richard Cutter, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913, page 1916. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
8. Derdak, T., et al International Directory of Company Histories, Volume 2, by Thomas Derdak and Tina Grant, St. James Press, USA, 1999, page 332. Retrieved May 21, 2018.
9. Hunsicker, C. S. Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; a history, by Clifton Swenk Hunsicker, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., USA, 1923, page 632. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
10. UPENN "Charles Eldridge Morgan (1844-1917), PENN Biographies, University of Pennsylvania, 1995.

External links

• Lewisiana or The Lewis letter — "A Monthly Inter-Family Paper," Elliot, Conn., USA, 1887.
• Francis Draper Lewis at Find a Grave