Rash's Surname Index
Notes for John Thompson DORRANCE
B.S., Mass. Inst. Tech., '95 (Sigma Alpha Epsilon), Ph.D., U. Gottingen, 1897. Founder, President and General Manage of the Campbell Soup Co., Camden, N.J.; dir. First Nat. State Bank (Camden), Nat. Bank Commerce in New York, Old Colony Trust Co. (Boston), Phila. & Camden Ferry Co., Atlantic City and Port Reading Rys. Sr. warden Christ Ch., Riverton, N.J. With Food Administration, U.S.A. Clubs: Manufacturers University, Phila. Racquet, Phila. Country, Pen and Pencil, Downtown, Riverton Country, Seaview Golf, Midday, Technology, New York Yacht (New York), Baltimore Country, Bishop's Head (Md.) Fish and Gun Club. Residence: "Pomona Farm," Cinnaminson, N.J.
From the N. Y. Tribune, dated Sept. 21, 1930:
"Dr. Dorrance held directorships in the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Prudential Insurance Company of
America, the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, the Philadelphia-Girard National Bank, the Girard Trust Company, the Port Reading Railroad and the Philadelphia & Camden Ferry Company.
"His clubs included the Metropolitan, Midday, New York Yacht, Technology and Recess Clubs in New York; the Bar Harbor Club, the Bar Harbor Yacht Club, the Long Key Fishing Club in Florida, the Seaview Golf Club of Absecon, N. J., and a large number of clubs in Philadelphia. He was also a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New England Society in Pennsylvania and the Union Interalliee in Paris."
From the Patent and Trademark Museum website at [http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ahrpa/opa/kids/ponder6.htm]:
"A pivotal development in soup occurred when Dr. John Dorrance, nephew of a wealthy Campbell’s
investor went to work for the company. At 24, armed with a chemistry degree from MIT and a Ph.D.
from the University of Gottengen in Germany, Dorrance turned down prestigious teaching positions
to work with Campbell. He made only $7.50 per week, but believed strongly in the company’s
potential. Dorrance realized that soup--inexpensive to make but very expensive to ship—could
become a powerful product if he removed its heaviest ingredient: water. Dorrance crafted
condensed soup out of hardy stock ingredients, slashed the price of soup from $.30 to $.10 per can,
and revolutionized the industry. By 1922, soup was such an integral part of the company’s presence
in America, that Campbell’s formally accepted "Soup" into its name."
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