Class Picture: Grammar Grade of Laurel Springs, New Jersey School. May 6, 1909. This is where Ethel taught, but she does not appear to be in this picture.

Class Picture: Grammar Grade of Laurel Springs, New Jersey School. May 6, 1909. This is where Ethel taught, but she does not appear to be in this picture.

Mort details this in page 16 of his book: "neither Fannie nor Abe went to college. My mother graduated from Camden High School, and then she went to a normal School, where you were taught to be a teacher in about two years. She got a job teaching at this little country school in Laurel Springs, New Jersey.
One interesting thing about her job was that she taught the Dorrance children. Arthur Dorrance was the man who owned Campbell’s Soup. Dr. John Dorrance,
his nephew, was a chemist and he invented the idea of selling the soup without the water in it — condensed soup. they became multi millionaires.

The school is now private and appears to still be in existence. https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/new-jersey/laurel-springs-school-207582

The story of the Dorrance family and Campbell soup is well documented.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thompson_Dorrance

1909

1909