Dorrance Hill Hamilton

Dorrance Hill Hamilton (born 1928)[1] is an American heiress of the Campbell Soup fortune and philanthropist who founded the SVF Foundation in Newport, Rhode Island. She is one of the wealthiest Americans according to Forbes.[2][3] She resides in Wayne, Pennsylvania and Newport, Rhode Island.

Dorrance Hill was born in New York in 1928 to Nathaniel Peter Hill and Elinor Winifred Dorrance. She married Samuel Matthews Vauclain Hamilton in 1950. 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. The family still holds a large percentage of the outstanding shares of Campbell stock. Hamilton's husband died in 1997. In 1998 Hamilton founded the SVF Foundation.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.pennock.ws/surnames/fam/fam62038.html
  2. ↑ "The Forbes 400". Forbes. 2007.
  3. ↑ "Poor Billionaires". Forbes. 2008.
  4. ↑ "The Last Great Lady," Philadelphia Magazine, http://www.phillymag.com/articles/the-last-great-lady/