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Marjorie Merriweather Post was born in Springfield, Illinois, the daughter and only child of C. W. Post and Ella Letitia Merriweather. At age 27, following her father's death in 1914, she became the owner of the rapidly growing Postum Cereal Company, founded in 1895. She inherited a US$ 20 million fortune. [3]
Merrill was born in New York City on December 29, 1923, but for many years, her date of birth was given as December 9, 1925. [3] [4] She was the only child of Post Cereals heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her second husband, Wall Street stockbroker Edward Francis Hutton, founder of E. F. Hutton & Co. [5] Merrill had two older half-sisters, Adelaide Brevoort Close (July 26, 1908 ...
1915 portrait of Eleanor (at left) and her sister Adelaide. Eleanor Post Close was born on December 3, 1909, in Greenwich, Connecticut, the second daughter of heiress, socialite and businesswoman Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973) and investment banker Edward Bennett Close.
Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1887-1973. Known as: The staggeringly rich Midwestern cereal heiress who built the obscenely luxurious Mar-a-Lago and saw no irony at all in donning a gingham dress and ...
More: Building Mar-a-Lago: Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Palm Beach showplace. While the heiress could have rested on her family's laurels and wealth, she instead worked to build Post into an ...
More: Memory Lane: Marjorie Merriweather Post loved to dance Herpel's family business would serve Mar-a-Lago for years to come, from its time as a federal government asset in the 1970s, to its ...
Camp Topridge is an Adirondack Park Great Camp bought in 1920 and substantially expanded and renovated in 1923 by Marjorie Merriweather Post, former owner of General Foods and the daughter of C. W. Post.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) -- The great-granddaughter of heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post has been found slain at her luxury spa resort on the Caribbean island of Roatan, Honduras ...