The Panic of 1873 upends urban life across America. But Philadelphia survives and even flourishes, hosting the first World’s Fair—with 10 million visitors—in 1876. During this period, the one-time US capital—the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed—leads the nation in industrial production and is fast becoming an international industrial leader.
Morgan Lewis thrives, too, with clients Germantown Trust Co., Germantown Hospital, and Girard National Bank.
The Panic of 1873 upends urban life across America. But Philadelphia survives and even flourishes, hosting the first World’s Fair—with 10 million visitors—in 1876. During this period, the one-time US capital—the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed—leads the nation in industrial production and is fast becoming an international industrial leader.
Morgan Lewis thrives, too, with clients Germantown Trust Co., Germantown Hospital, and Girard National Bank.
The firm becomes the city’s largest, expanding internationally with work on behalf of Baldwin Locomotive Works, which sold trains to Poland, Romania, Mexico, and various South American countries.
Bockius’s daily reports on his travels abroad provide a rich tableau of a post–World War I world.
Morgan Lewis wrote the Victor Records contract for the great virtuoso violinist Fritz Kreisler and conductor Victor Herbert’s contracts.
Bockius makes legal arrangements for the temporary transfer of the Stotesbury private art collection to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, some of which joins the permanent collection.
An enduring partnership emerges. Morgan Lewis survives the Great Depression largely because—unlike competitors—it evolved from a collection of individual practitioners into an institution with deeply shared values, traditions, and strong leadership.
