Adam Jonathan Heft submitted this study as partial fulfillment of the requirements for honors in American History, April 2, 1993.
William Draper Lewis was born in 1867 in Philadelphia to Henry and Fannie Hannah Wilson Lewis. William was well educated, attending Germantown Academy and Haverford College. After graduating from Haverford in 1888, Lewis studied law at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with an L.L.B. from the Law School and a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He taught economics at Haverford and legal history at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1896 he was appointed Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School serving in that position until 1914 and remaining on the faculty until 1924.
From the description of William Draper Lewis and the development of a modern law school at the University of Pennsylvania. (University of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122621809
