John Thompson Dorrance

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John Thompson Dorrance (1873-1930) was a U.S. soup businessman. Dorrance, trained as a chemist, invented condensed soup in 1897, at age 24, and hooked up with a small canning company named for one of its partners, who was a fruit merchant. Dorrance went on to become the president of Campbell Soup Company from 1914 to 1930, eventually buying out the Campbell family. He turned the business into one of America's great, and longest-lasting, brands. He was succeeded by his brother, Arthur Dorrance. He is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.

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• History of Campbell Soup
• Biography-West Laurel Hill Cemetery web site