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==Personal life and education== William Draper Lewis was reported by the ''Pennsylvania Law Review'' as being a devout [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Episcopalian]]<ref>[https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=8705&context=penn_law_review Williston, Samuel] "William Draper Lewis", ''University of Pennsylvania Law Review And American Law Register'', University of Pennsylvania, Volume 83, No. 3, January 1935. Retrieved May 17, 2018.</ref> born to [[Quaker]] parents,<ref>[https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8224&context=penn_law_review Roberts, Owen J.] "William Draper Lewis", ''University of Pennsylvania Law Review And American Law Register'', University of Pennsylvania, Volume 98, No. 1, November 1949. Retrieved May 17, 2018.</ref> Henry and Fannie Hannah Wilson Lewis, in [[Philadelphia]], in 1867. Lewis was the great-grandson of [[Simeon Draper]], and a descendant of [[James Draper (settler)|James Draper]], an early settler of the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]]. He also descended from [[Puritan migration to New England (1620β40)|Puritan pioneer]] George Lewes (1600β1663), an early settler at [[Plymouth Colony]]; the clothier-turned-farmer was also, in 1648 and 1650, an early surveyor of highways and, in 1651, was appointed constable of the town of Barnstable.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9dEUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA118 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.</ref> Lewis attended [[Germantown Academy]], graduating in 1885, earned a B.S. from [[Haverford College]] in 1888, then, in 1892, received an LLB. and PhD in [[Economics]] from the [[University of Pennsylvania]]. He was the first cousin of [[Francis Draper Lewis]], co-founder of [[Morgan, Lewis & Bockius]].<ref>[https://archive.org/details/drapersinamerica00drap Draper, Thomas Waln-Morgan] ''The Drapers in America'', J. Polhemus Printing Company, New York, USA, 1892, pages 67-68. Retrieved May 17, 2018.</ref> In 1892, Lewis married Caroline Mary Cope, with whom he had four children, Henry, Alfreda Cope, Anna, and William Draper Jr.<ref>[http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/ead/ead.html?id=EAD_upenn_biddle_WpennlawbllarchivesfindingaidsPULMSS002eadxmlUSPUL U of Pennsylvania] "William Draper Lewis Personal Correspondence", Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania Retrieved May 6, 2018.</ref>
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