). ". Renoirs and Monets hung on the walls of his mansion on Monk Road in Gladwyne, and orchids bloomed in the greenhouses. ". Dodo Hamilton observed to an intimate that a rambunctious child like Ippy, who might have longed for a warm hug, was more likely to get a directive — "Now we're going to go shooting, now we're going to do this. Often, reality intruded in harsh ways. ". He had other reasons, too, for not wanting to move, his lawyers and associates explained in a 1931 trial over inheritance taxes. Three other grandchildren of the inventor, Dorrance “Dodo” Hamilton, Hope “Happy” van Beuren, and Diana Strawbridge Norris Wister pushed to sell the company. Although he was one of Philadelphia's most visible philanthropists, he took equal pleasure in giving anonymously. John T. Dorrance had seen the empires of too many entrepreneurs crumble in the hands of their heirs. ". Dorrance Hamilton The 87-year-old Campbell's Soup heir lives in Wayne. "Ippy," as his eldest son was called, was a difficult child who was always "testing his father," said a family friend. Growing up, some boys might have recoiled from such responsibility, might have rebelled. A big story was Elinor's decision to work as a Campbell clerk for 31 cents an hour. She has three children, nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Jack and his wife returned to the Main Line in 1946, after he was discharged as an Army captain. At 42, John Thompson Dorrance was well on his way to becoming a legend. "The terror of him must have been that he somehow would spoil his heritage or somehow dissipate it. In addition to son S. Matthews V. Hamilton Jr. and daughter Margaret Hamilton Duprey, Mrs. Hamilton is survived by son Nathaniel Peter Hamilton, nine grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. Later, he replaced Campbell as president. The tax fight during Jack's senior year at Princeton was merely one in a series of courtroom showdowns that ensued after John Dorrance died in 1930. ". But these were expenses the Dorrances could well afford: John Dorrance's salary alone that year was $216,666. She attended Foxcroft School, a boarding school for young ladies in Virginia. She had homes in Wayne, Pennsylvania, Boca Grande, Florida and Newport, Rhode Island. Hamilton is a granddaughter of Dr. John T. Dorrance, who created the process for condensing soup and purchased the Campbell Soup Company from his uncle in 1914. But back home, where convenience was a big issue, prepared soups were expensive and packaged in big, cumbersome cans. Dorrance "Dodo" Hill Hamilton (born 1928) Is an American heiress of the Campbell Soup fortune and philanthropist who founded the SVF Foundation in Newport, Rhode Island. So attractive was Campbell Soup Co., the name the company officially adopted in 1922, that Dorrance was offered $120 million for it, according to the same newspaper account. He had ultimate veto power, of course. Tax collectors in New Jersey sat quietly as the estate battled it out in Pennsylvania. HAMILTON--Dorrance H. August 16, 1928 - April 18, 2017. To outsiders, the Dorrances lived a charmed life. He had been drinking and was melancholy. Hamilton, MT - Carol E. Dorrance, 88 of Hamilton passed away Friday, December 4, 2015 at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital in Hamilton. Hamilton was predeceased by her husband of 47 years, Samuel M. V. Hamilton, and survived by her three children, Margaret H. Duprey, N. Peter Hamilton and S. Matthews V. Hamilton Jr, nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. And he took a series of extraordinary steps to see to it that family control of the business would not be weakened by his heirs having to sell Campbell stock to pay tax collectors. And though he wanted his son to one day sit atop the management pyramid as chairman, Dorrance thought the day-to-day job of steering the business should be left to professionals. Friends say the divorce was hard on the children, who moved with their mother to Switzerland. Should I buy her a horse? "The Dorrances always had the best orchestra, the best food, the best liquor," said another family friend. "No one ever refused an invitation, and everyone would stay till 3 or 4 in the morning. Before long, he and his wife would show Philadelphia society just how rich the soup business was. The next morning, as he sat in a chair waiting to be shaved, Dorrance suffered an embolism. In their basement family room, which had a kitchen, Jack would hand out new recipes for his friends to try, often ones that used Campbell products. "It was freedom to him. 1567 Dorrance Hamilton, 88, Wayne, $1.3 billion, Campbell Soup: "Dorrance 'Dodo' Hamilton is among the grandchildren of John Dorrance, a … Summary: Sheree Dorrance's birthday is 03/10/1959 and is 61 years old. She described its three-story, 12-bedroom brick house as "very ugly, but very comfortable inside. In the first estate trial in 1931, the executors protested paying inheritance taxes in Pennsylvania, claiming that Dorrance had lived in Cinnaminson. In 1937, when the firstborn child of the patriarch's daughter Ethel Colket died of leukemia at age 3, Dorrance's widow had a twin mausoleum built so the girl could be buried there. The estate had to pay New Jersey $16,811,103.50. "The war was behind him," his niece Dodo Hamilton told an associate. Dorrance Hill Hamilton was 88. ". "There was always this struggle to live up to this highly motivated and highly successful father. "That's the way John T. Dorrance Sr. wanted it, and that's the way it was. The man he never really knew became for the boy "the hero of my life. All the profits would go to them and their mother, but the actual ownership of his shares would pass to his grandchildren. Hamilton's husband Samuel M.V. While studying abroad, Dorrance had been impressed by the soups he had enjoyed at European dinner tables. A grieving Ethel Dorrance, clad in black, had to explain how one of the butlers rang up grocery bills of more than $400 a month. He was a curiosity at the Joseph Campbell Preserve Co. A 24-year-old chemist, two degrees to his name, ample job options. "The family had nothing to do with the operation of the business. "Underneath all that glamour was a lot of misery," said a family friend. When Arthur Dorrance retired in 1914, John Dorrance took over as president. One of the nieces, Dorrance Hamilton, sits on the company’s board. For Jack Dorrance — trumpeted in the Philadelphia Record as "the nearest thing to a reigning earl or duke that we have in this nation" — wealth sometimes was a burden. Hamilton has kept her grandchildren in mind during the restoration, adding a boccie court and an infinity pool. Jack was the man with everything. Hamilton was a granddaughter of Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, who created the process for condensing soup and purchased the Campbell Soup Company from his uncle in 1914. Forget his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At work, Jack carried out his father's wishes. “Her family was around her,” said Nat Hamilton, 35, of Malvern, who was the eldest of her nine grandchildren. The Inquirer reviewed estate records, court testimony and other documents, and interviewed friends, former Dorrance employees and family members to construct a portrait of an American dynasty. He was a skilled marksman and fisherman; he shot quail in England, fished salmon in Quebec and hunted other birds on plantations in South Carolina and Florida. Dorrance wanted to see his son follow him into the business and stated so in his will: "It is my desire that my son be given the opportunity to learn the business of the Campbell Soup Co … and to demonstrate his ability to hold a position of trust. "He never really enjoyed what he had," said a Gladwyne friend. John Dorrance's married daughters sometimes joked about being excluded from the mausoleum reserved for their parents and brother. The next season in Maine, John Dorrance became seriously ill. After training, he became an officer and was assigned to the Signal Corps at Camp Crowder in Neosho, Mo. The wedding was intimate. "Obviously, everyone was after him, trying to get money, and it made him standoffish," said Howard Butcher. "He drew back. But Arthur Dorrance wasn't anxious to hire his nephew. It made him more reclusive. Mrs. Dorrance wore black. It was just accepted," he told Fortune magazine in a 1987 interview. He was inducted into the Army in July 1941 as a $21-a-month private. He wanted his family to retain control of Campbell Soup and, more important, he wanted to pass on as much of his fortune as possible to them. Wife of Samuel "Sam" Hamilton (The familiar "M'm! "I always knew I'd work for the company. Bennett, two years Ippy's junior, was less impudent but no closer to his father. She is among the grandchildren of John Dorrance, a chemical engineer who invented the … "The company was everything for Jack," said Robert D. Dripps 3d, son of his third wife, Diana. Work for the company. She wanted her younger children — Charlotte, who was 14 in 1925; Margaret, 10, and John Jr., 6 — to attend private schools "with children with their prospects in life. " At home, he enjoyed a lifestyle that would make his ambitious mother proud. After three months, Elinor put her "career" on hold, sailed to Europe and returned months later on the arm of her fiance, Nathaniel P. Hill, a New York investment banker. ". Only days before Elinor's 1925 tea, Ethel had moved her brood from Pomona Farm in Cinnaminson to Woodcrest, a medieval-style mansion set on a thickly wooded ridge in Radnor. For four days, he lay in a coma. Woodcrest became a regular stop on the Main Line social circuit. A memorial service will be conducted on Thursday, May 11, at 11 am, at 218 Strafford Avenue in Wayne, Penn. The estate left by John T. Dorrance was the third largest in the country. "One of the great showplaces," said W. Thacher Longstreth, a Philadelphia councilman who was a friend of the Dorrances' only son, Jack. I could see him changing, I could see him getting suspicious of people. "He told me, 'Howard, I have $40 million in a bank in Boston and I'd give it to anyone who could make me feel better,' " Lanin said. In 1904, the company created one of the most enduring advertising images: the cherubic Campbell kids, created by Grace Gebbie Drayton of Philadelphia. ". But the more outgoing Mary Alice became, the more uncomfortable Jack seemed to get and the more he retreated, acquaintances say. A friend, Theodore Grayson, recounted later Dorrance's reaction to a compliment on his new home. It was a perfect cool autumn day. Two of Jack Dorrance’s … Nathaniel Peter Hill, Eleanor Winifred Dorrance, Hamilton, Hamilton, Hamilton, Aug 16 1928 - Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, Apr 18 2017 - Boca Grande, Lee, Florida, United States, Nathaniel Peter Hill, Elinor Winifred Dorrance, Feb 11 1950 - Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, Nathaniel P. Hill, Elinor Hill (born Dorrance), Nathaniel Peter Hill, Elinor Winifred Hill Ingersoll (born Dorrance), Ray Dorrance Hill, Van Beuren (born Hill), 1930 - Manhattan (Districts 0501-0750), New York, New York, USA, 1950 - Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, Lenox Hill, New York, New York, United States, New York City Marriage License Index 1908-1972. ", All through the vacation, Dorrance took phone calls from his Wall Street investment adviser, Sidney Weinberg of Goldman Sachs & Co. Weinberg's advice: Sell stocks! When a neighbor, a Pulitzer family heiress, asked to hire Lanin's band, he said he had to get permission from Dorrance, who responded, "Go play for her, but charge her! He was sent to personnel, which assigned him to a job on the factory floor, reviewing the wages of hourly jobs. While in Missouri, in the summer of 1942, Lt. Dorrance went to a servicemen's party in Joplin, where he met a local debutante, Mary Alice Bennett. What had begun as a two-pronged scheme to save millions of dollars in taxes, while retaining the family's lock on its Campbell stock, ended with the estate being hit with a double-whammy bill of $34,248,768.50. She was celebrated as the debutante laborer. They presented their own tax bill. But that loss was soon offset by rising soup profits. That first summer in Maine, in 1929, Dorrance decided to hire bandleader Howard Lanin — for the entire season. He frequented the symphony and art exhibits, but preferred stealing away to a bird sanctuary to practice wild turkey calls. In many ways, Jack Dorrance was like his father — trapped like "a bug under a glass case. " At home, Jack's relationship with his children was strained. Carol was born June 15, 1927 in Clifford, ND, the daughter of the late Isaac and Fern Umstad Elston. She married Samuel Matthews Vauclain Hamilton Sr. in 1950. "I don't think so. ". There was a problem with his daughter. But Jack's impetuous romance disappointed his mother and four sisters, who doted on him and had wanted to help pick a suitable mate. They played bridge — poker if it was just the men — and watched Milton Berle on television, enjoying "bull shots" made with beef broth and vodka. Six months later, the shy, 23-year-old millionaire proposed. Dorrance "Dodo" Hill Hamilton (August 16, 1928 – April 18, 2017) was an American heiress of the Campbell Soup fortune and philanthropist who founded the SVF Foundation in Newport, Rhode Island.She was one of the wealthiest Americans according to Forbes, and a billionaire in 2005 to 2007 (at least). The Dorrances were on their way. Nothing," said William Beverly Murphy, a former Campbell CEO and Jack's mentor. Hamilton, who died in 1997. Marie Louise Dorrance Hill was born in Lenox Hill, New York, New York on August 16th, 1928 to Nathaniel Peter Hill and Elinor Winifred Dorrance. Performances by students from UArts' School of Music included a rendition of "Fly Me to the Moon" by Jonathan Williams '18 (Vocal Performance). https://www.geni.com/people/Dorrance-DoDo-Hamilton/6000000024216336753 When he passed in 1989, he left behind his wife, three children — John T. “Ippy” Dorrance, Mary Alice Malone and Bennett Dorrance — and eight grandchildren. Carol was born June 15, 1927 in Clifford, North Dakota the daughter of the late Isaac and Fem Umstad Elston. Born in New York City, formerly of Wayne, Pennsylvania and Newport, Rhode Island, Dorrance Hill Hamilton passed away peacefully in … Howard Butcher 3d, chairman emeritus of Butcher & Singer and one of Jack's regular poker and golf partners, said: "He felt very conscious of the fact that his father had made the money and he hadn't. ". Elinor, a delicate 18-year-old with bobbed light hair and doe eyes, wore a calf-length silver lace dress and carried a bouquet of cascading orchids. Hamilton died in … He didn't pass his time giving away money to charities. Two bands played until dawn, one featuring an unknown singer named Bing Crosby. M'm! ". A prominent philanthropist and an heiress to the Campbell Soup Co. fortune, Hamilton … Not one to delegate authority, Dorrance delved into every phase of production, from advertising to cultivating varieties of tomatoes. It wasn't that Mary Alice — or Malice, as her friends called her — didn't have a pedigree. Not only was the tax rate lower in New Jersey, but the tax code there would have better protected his estate from disgruntled heirs. When he died, Dorrance bequeathed his entire fortune to his family — his Campbell stock, $32 million in other stocks and bonds, $4.2 million in cash and insurance. Mary Alice returned to Philadelphia to finish high school, but the boys were estranged from their father for years. His health was deteriorating. Of all the children, Mary Alice, the youngest, was considered Jack's favorite. Friends remember Jack Dorrance's unexpected and sometimes ribald sense of humor. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. The crux of the disputes was the question of how much the estate owed and to which jurisdictions. Dorrance would have to give consumers good reasons to buy something they had never tried. ". If he did that, their Campbell stock would be worthless. 4,000), Jack stopped at a local market, rearranged the soup cans and bought the damaged ones — never revealing who he was. Hamilton was a granddaughter of Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, who created the process for condensing soup and purchased the Campbell Soup Company from his uncle in 1914. He died in 1997. But when John Thompson Dorrance took over a sparsely equipped laboratory at the Camden factory in October 1897, he knew exactly what he wanted. But it was an effort for Jack to be just one of the guys. The word within the company was that they were willing to sell stock to Dorrance because he threatened to start a competing business. He was one of those restless scientists with the skill, savvy and ego to turn an innovation into a fortune. She relocated to a town near Geneva, where the family owned property. Ethel Dorrance, however, won out. He was out to prove himself. He was under no pressure. "Jack's smart enough to know you don't acquire that many friends overnight," said a classmate. Geni requires JavaScript! The ensuing protest by the estate again worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, which once again declined to hear the family's appeal. She moved to Wayne with her husband, Samuel M.V. Jack grew to view his role at Campbell Soup less as the captain of the business and more as the custodian of the family fortune. And when he died, he directed his only son to protect that legacy, the Campbell Soup Co. It was an important distinction. "When he was under stress, that's when he would drink," said Belton K. Johnson, a former Campbell board member and Texas hunting pal of Dorrance's. But now, three — Dorrance Hamilton, Diana Norris and Hope van Beuren — want to cash in their inheritance. At Princeton University, Jack didn't flaunt his wealth or play the coddled rich boy, said Walter D. Pinkard, a roommate. "Jack didn't have a father, so he didn't know anything about fathering. " One minute he could be sitting at his desk in Camden, the next, tending tomatoes with his sleeves rolled up. But now, three — Dorrance Hamilton, Diana Norris and Hope van Beuren — want to cash in their inheritance. ". Snapped Dorrance: "I don't like this damned place. When the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case, the estate had no choice but to pay an agreed-upon tax bill of $17,437,665 — money earmarked to help keep 13,000 Pennsylvania families on relief. And she wanted her older girls — Elinor, 18, and Ethel, 16 — to make proper entrances into society and, of course, to marry well. When the revelry ended, they stuck Jack with the bill. Under Pennsylvania law, his widow would be entitled to one-third of his personal property — more than he was willing to leave her. One of the few signs of his wealth was the valet from Woodcrest who appeared each Saturday to whisk away his dirty laundry and return it, pressed and cleaned, the next day. Before reporting for duty at Campbell Soup, Jack was detoured by World War II. "She is a very charming, beautiful girl," Mrs. Dorrance said upon her return. A New York gossip columnist told how Margaret and Charlotte once arrived at a Philadelphia shop from a cocktail party "and showed signs of being in an extremely gay mood. " Her eldest daughter, Elinor, was making her debut at the family's Radnor estate, Woodcrest, and the gatekeepers of Main Line society were about to get their first glimpse of the Dorrances' wealth. Interment will be private in Newport. It was never discussed. A friend recalled how, on a hunting trip in Hebbronville, Texas, (pop. At Dorrance's insistence, the company began to phase out its other products in favor of soups. "The drinking was brought on by a feeling of inferiority that went through all of those kids — a feeling of not really being accepted, a feeling that they were brought into society because they had money and parties. The jobs gave him a firsthand look at the inner workings of the business without taking on management responsibility, just as his father wanted it. Daughter of Nathaniel Peter Hill and Elinor Winifred Hill Never mind his doctorate in organic chemistry from the University of Gottingen in Germany, or the fact that four colleges — Columbia, Cornell, Bryn Mawr and Gottingen — were trying to recruit him for their chemistry departments. "He was marked wherever he went as the heir, the only boy, of the terribly rich Dorrance family," said a friend. In 1950, Hamilton had moved to Wayne with her husband, Samuel M.V. This was the moment Ethel Dorrance had been waiting for. His life, friends said, was filled with contradictions. Horseback riding was her passion, and often Jack would rise before dawn to drive her to competitions. With such large inheritances at stake, Fifi and her sisters were hounded by reporters. When the family moved to Radnor, John Dorrance's income was about $3 million a year, according to a report in the Philadelphia Record when he died in 1930. 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Dorrance further made a point of telling all who would listen that his home was Pomona Farm, not Woodcrest. But family life was troubled below the surface. Before long, the Dorrances were joining other Philadelphians of their class for vacations in Bar Harbor, Maine. The inventor insisted that the mausoleum at West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd be reserved for people with the surname Dorrance, David Dorrance said. She graduated from Hope High School in Hope, ND in 1945. He hobnobbed with the rich but was more relaxed talking crops over coffee with the farmer who ran Crow's Nest. She has three children, nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Hamilton – Carol E. Dorrance, 88, of Hamilton, passed away Friday, Dec. 4, 2015 at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital in Hamilton. I don't think he found any great joy in being rich. "He didn't lose a dime. John T Dorrance Jr's niece is Dorrance Hamilton John T Dorrance Jr's niece is Hope Hill John T Dorrance Jr's niece is Charlotte Weber John T Dorrance Jr's nephew is Tristram Colket Jr John T Dorrance Jr's nephew is George Strawbridge Jr John T Dorrance Jr's niece is Diana Crompton Norris. Jack had a hard time putting down his guard, even with his children, a friend said. ". Hamilton's husband Samuel M.V. Dorrance didn't want his estate to have to sell stock to pay off his widow. He was obsessed with building the business — and with retaining family control of it. The Dorrances were new money and not allowed to forget it. Hamilton, in 1950. Pork and beans were added, but only to keep the assembly line running on days when beef stock for the soups was being made. Mrs. Hamilton was born in Lenox Hill, New York, New York on August 16th, 1928 to Nathaniel Peter Hill and Elinor Winifred Dorrance. The former employee tried to cheer Jack, assuring him that everything would work out and maybe the children would return. News of the betrothal didn't hit the society pages in Philadelphia until 10 days later, after Mrs. Dorrance and Jack's sister Ethel had a chance to dash out to inspect the bride-to-be. Those were the tenets that Jack Dorrance lived by. When John T. Dorrance showed up at the canning factory in 1897, most co- workers assumed that he had been put on the payroll by his uncle, Arthur. They had it all: money, attention, power. He flatly refused that and all other offers. Mother of Private; Private and Private Young Jack was a lanky child of 11 when his father died. Advertising became a hallmark of Campbell. "The very solid matrons looked down on them," the friend said. ", John Dorrance never felt comfortable at Woodcrest. No. He tended a tomato patch near the front door of his home, a 76-acre farm in Cinnaminson, Burlington County, where he and his wife, Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance, had moved with their growing family in 1911. The family still holds a large percentage of the outstanding shares of Campbell stock. A cause of death wasn’t disclosed. Carol was born June 15, 1927 in … But his decision was overturned by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania after the state appealed. More important, the will stipulated that when each of the Dorrance children died, their children would inherit the company's stock. On Sept. 21, 1930, he died. He dined with presidents and princes, and swapped soup casserole recipes with his hired help. ". Looking back, many friends contend that Jack was overwhelmed by other people's expectations. She was eager for a life among the suburban castles and country clubs of the Main Line. With mock solemnity, the group dubbed itself the Benevolent Marching and Philosophical Society: marching for the golf, philosophical for the poker. He had done all the right things. Within the family, it was believed that in all, John Dorrance paid his uncle $5 million. In 1940, the same year he was named "Bachelor of the Year" by Philadelphia debutantes, news reports about a family tax battle dredged up the fact that he was getting an allowance of $20,000 a month. Hamilton died in 2017 at the age of 88. Sister of Private, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorrance_Hill_Hamilton. Later, he worked for the elite Office of Strategic Services — a forerunner to the CIA — and was stationed in southern China. She is one of the wealthiest Americans according to Forbes. "John Dorrance was dumping the market" in the months before the great crash of 1929, Lanin said. The family had to turn over every bill for jewelry from Bailey Banks & Biddle, every receipt. It would cost less to package, ship and store the soups. "You couldn't possibly spend that much money in those days. The cost for the nine-piece band: $43,000. "Jack tended toward alcoholism at some periods of his life," said his cousin, David Dorrance. "He would want those who profited from his labor to be completely his own flesh and blood," said David R. Dorrance, a nephew of the inventor. The six-bedroom-eight-bath residence measures nearly 10,000 square feet and sits on over three and half acres on one of the highest points in Newport. He was too busy making money. After his death, New Jersey assessed the estate $16,768,478. Ethel had made no secret of her dislike for the farm. John Dorrance persisted, though. But in between the good life and stock-market coups, there was trouble. That way, he reasoned, you could reduce the size of the can. The father built a monument to himself and his family. Hamilton died in 1997. And if the company must be sold, be sure the family retains at least 52 percent of the combined company's stock. The divorce was an emotional nadir for Jack Dorrance. He could stay in Cinnaminson whenever he wanted. Jack, some friends say, was a reluctant tycoon. Within months, they joined the Vanderbilts, Dukes and Biddles in the Social Register. It weighed more on the girls than Jack. His free time was spent sailing his 68-foot yacht, the Duna, in Newport or pheasant-shooting at his Crow's Nest farm in Chester County. Gossips referred to Mary Alice as "that girl from the hills," one of Jack's friends recalled. The most crucial issue was, where did Dorrance live? Butlers had to pay to get their clothes washed at Woodcrest and got two uniform shirts a year — as Christmas gifts. "She had difficulty fitting in with the group that Jack had contact with, and therefore she was very sensitive to any criticism that he had of her. I think he found it as embarrassing as it was fun. I feel as though I were a bug under a glass case in a museum when I am in it! Hamilton, MT - Carol E. Dorrance, 88 of Hamilton passed away Friday, December 4, 2015 at Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital, in Hamilton.