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A chemist who rewrote his will six times and added nine codicils to prevent his family from ever selling Campbell Soup — his grandson sold his entire stake for $720 million and moved to Dublin, his granddaughters went to war with his grandsons over whether to auction the company, and in 2024 the corporation dropped the word "Soup" from its own name. ------------------- Gain FREE access to secret full-length documentaries on wealthy families "too scandalous for YouTube" by joining our newsletter: https://www.substack.com/@oldmoneyluxury ------------------- Forbes' 2024 ranking valued the Dorrance family at $17 billion, making them the twenty-third richest dynasty in America — a fortune built almost entirely on a single product invented in a Camden, New Jersey factory in 1897. John Thompson Dorrance earned a doctorate from Göttingen, turned down university professorships, and walked into his uncle's soup factory where he paid for his own laboratory equipment. Within months he cracked it — by extracting water from soup during cooking, he cut shipping costs by two-thirds. Condensed tomato soup sold for ten cents a can instead of thirty. Within five years, Campbell was selling over fifteen million cans annually. By 1915 he had bought out the remaining Campbell family interest to become the company's sole proprietor. When he died in 1930, his fortune was estimated between $115 and $150 million. His will ran to thirty-five pages with explicit instructions never to sell Campbell stock. Both Pennsylvania and New Jersey claimed him as a resident and taxed the estate — the federal government collected an additional $9.5 million. His son Jack held the empire together as chairman from 1962 to 1984, acquiring Swanson, Pepperidge Farm, Godiva, and Vlasic. Annual sales crossed $1 billion by 1971 and topped $4 billion by 1987. The moment Jack died in April 1989, family unity shattered. Dissident cousins announced they wanted to sell their combined 17.4% stake. Campbell shares shot up $4.37 in a single day. A secret merger plan code-named "Project Toad" would have combined Campbell with Quaker Oats and diluted the Dorrances to minority shareholders. The pro-independence children packed the board by the narrowest of votes and killed it. John "Ippy" Dorrance III sold his entire stake by 1996 for approximately $720 million, obtained Irish citizenship, and moved to Dublin — the heir who abandoned the family enterprise outperformed the cousins who stayed, growing his net worth to $2.6 billion. In 2018, Dan Loeb's Third Point hedge fund produced a viral video called "Empty the Can" mocking the heirs as complacent billionaires. A Dorrance descendant broke ranks and publicly called his cousins "complacent." The family's 41% voting bloc held, giving Loeb two board seats but no sale. Mary Alice Dorrance Malone — the largest individual shareholder at approximately 18% and longest-tenured board member since 1990 — died on June 16, 2025. Her daughter, founder of luxury footwear brand Malone Souliers, took her board seat, becoming the first fourth-generation Dorrance director. The dynasty endures, the fortune remains extraordinary, and the soup empire has become something its founder never intended — a snack company that dropped his signature product from its own name.

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