Word: cinnaminson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Campbell Soupmaker John Thompson Dorrance died in 1930 leaving a $100,000,000 estate, two States greedily claimed him as a native son. New Jersey asserted his residence was Cinnaminson Township, N. J.; Pennsylvania protested that he officially lived in Radnor, Pa. First to win out in this long litigation was Pennsylvania which last year received a juicy $14,500,000 slice of inheritance taxes...
...true that the gas & electric light bills in one month at Cinnaminson [Pomona Farms] amounted to only...
Died. John Thompson Dorrance, Ph. D., 56, president of Campbell Soup Co., a director of Pennsylvania Railroad, Prudential Life Insurance Co., Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, four other companies; after a heart attack, at his home in Cinnaminson, N.J. Dr. Dorrance had degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Gottingen, Germany. But such confidence had he in his canned, condensed soup idea that he went to work at $7.50 a week for a canning company, amassed a fortune of $22,000,000. With the exception of the late King Edward VII he was the only foreigner...