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PHILADELPHIA — Dorrance Hill Hamilton, whose grandfathering invented the action acclimated to accomplish Campbell’s abridged soups and who acclimated her affiliated affluence for philanthropy, has died. She was 88.

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Hamilton died Tuesday at her home in Boca Grande, Florida, said Nancy Brent Wingo, controlling administrator of the Hamilton Family Foundation. A account of afterlife wasn’t disclosed.

Hamilton, who accepted the appellation “Dodo,” was an ardent agriculturalist and tended to bags of plants on her 10-acre acreage in Wayne, aloof west of Philadelphia. She additionally had a home in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Hamilton was the granddaughter of Campbell Soup Co. architect John T. Dorrance and was a longtime accoutrement on Forbes’ account of the country’s 400 richest people. The annual estimated her net account at $1.1 billion in 2006, but she alone off the account in consecutive years.

She gave abroad millions of dollars to Philadelphia educational and cultural institutions, including $25 actor to Thomas Jefferson University, a medical school; $25 actor to The University of the Arts; $5 actor to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and at atomic $10 actor to The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

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Hamilton was a accoutrement at the Philadelphia Annual Show, acceptable endless ribbons over three decades afore backward from antagonism in 2014. She had abounding full-time gardeners alive in the greenhouses about her red brick Georgian mansion.

Her longtime abutment of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, which sponsors the annual show, accustomed the alignment to redesign and advance borough landscapes about the city.

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She and her bedmate accustomed the Hamilton Family Foundation in 1992. It provides allotment for literacy-based educational projects in underserved schools in Philadelphia; Camden, New Jersey; and Chester, Pennsylvania.

In 1999, she founded the Newport-based SVF Foundation, a nonprofit that works to bottle endangered breeds of aliment and livestock. She additionally helped advance Forty 1 North, a auberge berth resort in the city.

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Born in New York on Aug. 16, 1928, Hamilton grew up on Park Avenue in Manhattan and in Newport.

She confused to Wayne, Pennsylvania, afterwards marrying Samuel M.V. Hamilton in 1950; they aloft two sons and a daughter. Samuel Hamilton died in 1997.

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