title: Francis Draper Lewis
text: # 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.
  
  On April 28, 1887, he married Mary Humphreys Chandler, daughter of Charles Wesley Chandler (1833 - 1882) and Julia Adelaide Peabody.
  
  ## Education and career
  
  Lewis graduated from Amherst College in 1869, then from Harvard Law School in 1871. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1872 and began his practice in the offices of John Christian Bullitt.
  
  On March 10, 1873, Lewis and Charles Eldridge Morgan, Jr. co-founded law firm Morgan Lewis, which became Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in 1883.
  
  