The Dark Story of Campbell's Soup The Fortune TWO STATES Claimed From One Dead Man

The Dark Story of Campbell's Soup: The Fortune TWO STATES Claimed From One Dead Man The official story is a happy one. A young chemist in a Camden cannery takes the water out of soup, and a red and white can ends up in every kitchen in America. But that story leaves out the paperwork. John T. Dorrance was hired by his own uncle at seven dollars and fifty cents a week, and he paid for his lab equipment himself. By 1915 he owned the whole company. When he died in 1930, New Jersey taxed his estate as a New Jersey man. Pennsylvania said he really lived at Woodcrest, his estate on the Main Line, and taxed it too. Both state supreme courts agreed with their own state. Sixty years later his grandchildren split over whether to sell the company, and one of them gave up his American citizenship. It all comes back to a single word he signed again and again. Chapters: 00:00 — The Paperwork 02:17 — ACT I — THE RISE 05:36 — ACT II — THE FACADE 09:20 — ACT III — THE CRACK 14:28 — ACT IV — THE RECKONING 19:39 — ACT V — THE AFTERMATH Source Material Visual material used in this production is obtained from publicly accessible archives, including Wikimedia Commons. Copyright & Fair Use Notice This channel incorporates copyrighted material under the principles of Fair Use as recognized by U.S. law. Under Section 107 of the United States Copyright Act, certain uses of copyrighted works such as for analysis, commentary, educational purposes, research, and reporting are permitted without prior authorization from the copyright holder. Sources Hill v. Martin, 296 U.S. 393 (1935) — https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremeco... Dorrance v. Martin, 12 F. Supp. 746 (D.N.J. 1935) — https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/... Philadelphia Inquirer, A Dynasty Divided — https://www.inquirer.com/philly/busin... The Harvard Crimson, Escape From America (1994) — https://www.thecrimson.com/article/19... Campbell's company history — https://www.thecampbellscompany.com/a... #documentary #history #oldmoney #CampbellsSoup