Personal Life and Education
William Draper Lewis was an Episcopalian, probably of Quaker stock, born in Philadelphia in 1867. He received a B.S. from Haverford College in 1888 and both an LL.B. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1891.
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