Elinor Dorrance Ingersoll, a director of the Campbell Soup Company and president of the Preservation Society of Newport County, R.I. died in a New York Hospital, where she had been governor of the Society of the New York Hospital for 25 years. The wife of a retired vice admiral, Stuart H. Ingersoll, she was 68 years old and lived at 740 Park Avenue and in Newport. Mrs. Ingersoll, whose late father was president of Campbell, was educated at Westfield Friends School and Agnes Irwin School in Paris. She worked in one of the company's soup plants in Camden, N.J., for several months before her first marriage in 1927 to Nathaniel P. Hill, stock broker. He died in 1965 and she remarried in 1968. She was also a trustee of the Newport Hospital, the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design and the Campbell Historical Museum. After her death her mansion Bois Dore in Newport, RI was sold to Oil Heiress Carolyn Mary Skelly.
Bio by: Bobby Kelley
Bio by: Bobby Kelley
Elinor Dorrance Ingersoll, a director of the Campbell Soup Company and president of the Preservation Society of Newport County, R.I. died in a New York Hospital, where she had been governor of the Society of the New York Hospital for 25 years. The wife of a retired vice admiral, Stuart H. Ingersoll, she was 68 years old and lived at 740 Park Avenue and in Newport. Mrs. Ingersoll, whose late father was president of Campbell, was educated at Westfield Friends School and Agnes Irwin School in Paris. She worked in one of the company's soup plants in Camden, N.J., for several months before her first marriage in 1927 to Nathaniel P. Hill, stock broker. He died in 1965 and she remarried in 1968. She was also a trustee of the Newport Hospital, the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design and the Campbell Historical Museum. After her death her mansion Bois Dore in Newport, RI was sold to Oil Heiress Carolyn Mary Skelly.
Bio by: Bobby Kelley
Bio by: Bobby Kelley
