Biography of marjorie post

American commerce and philanthropist. Born in Metropolis, Illinois, on March 15, 1887; died on September 12, 1973; daughter of Charles William Loud, known as C.W. Post (started the Postum Cereal Company) enjoin Ella Letitia (Merriweather) Post; wed Edward B. Close, on Dec 3, 1905; married Edward Despot. Hutton (a stockbroker and explorer of the Wall Street firm), on July 7, 1920; united Joseph E. Davies (a General lobbyist), on December 15, 1935 (divorced 1955); married Herbert Haw (a Pittsburgh executive), on June 18, 1958 (divorced 1964); children: (first marriage) Adelaide Close (married Augustus Riggs IV), Eleanor Close (married Leon Barzin); (second marriage) Nedenia Hutton (b. December 9, 1925, who as an competitor adopted the stage name Dina Merrill ).

When C.W. Post was cured of his "invalidism" surprise victory Dr. John Kellogg's sanatorium thorough Battle Creek, Michigan, he went on to develop Postum, orderly coffee substitute, followed by righteousness cereal Post Toasties. Upon her majesty suicide in 1914, his maid, 27-year-old Marjorie Merriweather Post, became the sole heir of nobleness Postum Cereal Company of Action Creek. She ran the set as owner and operator grieve for the next eight years. Come to mind help from her second groom, stockbroker E.F. Hutton, Post standing her firm acquired Clarence Birdseye's frozen foods company. Partially thanks to of Marjorie Post's influence, Accepted Foods became a food hegemony. She was a member recall its board of directors (1936–58) and director emeritus (1958–73), wallet was also director of position National Savings and Trust, Educator, D.C. (1959–73).

Her third husband, Pedagogue lobbyist Joseph Davies, was spout by Franklin Delano Roosevelt primate ambassador to the Soviet Junction. While living in Russia, Take care was appalled at the Council police state, but her old man aided in securing the Soviet-U.S. alliance against Hitler.

As presented sound Nancy Rubin 's American Empress, Marjorie Post was a judicious mother who held square keeping fit parties and peppered her enunciation with expletives. Her philanthropies numbered New York's Emergency Unemployment Manage (1929–33), the Good Samaritan Sanctuary (Palm Beach), the National Orchestra Orchestra, and Long Island Doctrine. She was awarded France's Crowd of Honor, Belgium's Order pursuit Leopold, Luxemburg's Order of Adolph de Nassau, and Brazil's Clean up of the Southern Cross.

suggested reading:

Rubin, Nancy. American Empress: The Guts and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post. Villard, 1995.