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	Marjorie Merriweather Post: Collector of Decorative Arts
		Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973), heir to the Post cereal fortune, was the founder of Hillwood Museum and Gardens
		Post's career as a collector harks back to the early part of the 20th-century and coincides with her move to New York.
		Post’s final and most important philanthropic gesture became reality when Hillwood, her last estate in Washington, DC, was bequeathed to the public as a museum.
	www.hillwoodmuseum.org /mmp.html (983 words)

	Marjorie Merriweather Post. (Hillwood Museum & Gardens)
		Marjorie Post purchased the Hillwood property (see the frontispiece) in 1955 after she divorced her third husband, Joseph E. Davies (1876-1958), who had been the United States ambassador to the Soviet Union.
		Post's genius, in addition to manufacturing novel foods, was the art of marketing, and he is credited with being the first to recognize the value of advertising and promotion.
		Marjorie Post insisted that Hillwood's gardens be altered to reflect the international scope of the interior of the house.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-98641322.html (4269 words)

	Marjorie Merriweather Post (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marjorie Merriweather Post aka Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was a leading American socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc. She was 27 when her father died, and she became the owner of the rapidly growing Postum Cereal Company.
		Marjorie Post was born in Springfield, Illinois, the daughter of C.
		Marjorie Post donated some of her jewelry to the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. and is displayed in the Harry Winston exhibit.
	nba.servegame.org /en/Marjorie_Merriweather_Post.htm (628 words)

	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Marjorie Merriweather Post
		Marjorie Merriweather Post (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) (or Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May) was a leading American socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc. She was 27 when her father died, and she became the owner of the rapidly growing Postum Cereal Company.
		Marjorie Merriweather Post was also known for her lavish homes, the largest of which was Mar-A-Lago in West Palm Beach, Florida.
		The Merriweather Post Pavilion, an outdoor concert venue, in Columbia, Maryland is named for her.
	www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Marjorie_Merriweather_Post (412 words)

	Marjorie Merriweather Post
		Post was a pioneer collector who assembled her Russian Imperial works of art long before they were widely recognized or appreciated in the West.
		Post was a visionary collector, which distinguishes her from those who merely amassed huge numbers of ravishing objects.
		“Marjorie Merriweather Post was one of America’s great collectors of fine and decorative arts, who chose to create a museum out of her home, like Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry C. Frick, or Henry du Pont,” asserts Frederick J. Fisher, Director of the Hillwood Museum and Gardens.
	www.antiquesjournal.com /Pages04/Monthly_pages/jan05/post.html (1482 words)

	The Story Continues in Post, Texas
		Post purchased the 333 acres of ranch land in Garza/Lynn counties from early settlers and ranchers.
		Post was then notified of the discovery and he immediately instructed the Double U to use the find to construct the first rock buildings in the town, Due to the hauling distances, this was an important discovery.
		Marjorie Merriweather Post was 27 when she inherited a fortune and became the owner of a thriving business.
	www.posttexas.com /Post,Texas.htm (5658 words)

	Antiques and the Arts Online
		Post was a pioneering collector who assembled Russian imperial works of art long before they were widely recognized or appreciated in the West, and she acquired the nucleus of her superb collection while living in Russia in the late 1930s.
		Post bought Hillwood in 1955 and immediately decided her home would be a museum that would educate and inspire the public.
		As Post intended, Hillwood's collections are exhibited and enjoyed within the environment of historic Georgian-style estate, while 25-acres of landscaped gardens and natural woodlands provide an outdoor setting that complement the European manner of the interior of the house.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /a2000.asp?a=CoverStory12-05-2000-12-38-34 (1806 words)

	Antiques and the Arts Online - A Revitalized Hillwood Museum and Gardens Reopens
		Post was a pioneering collector who assembled Russian imperial works of art long before they were widely recognized or appreciated in the West, and she acquired the nucleus of her superb collection while living in Russia in the late 1930s.
		Post bought Hillwood in 1955 and immediately decided her home would be a museum that would educate and inspire the public.
		As Post intended, Hillwood's collections are exhibited and enjoyed within the environment of historic Georgian-style estate, while 25-acres of landscaped gardens and natural woodlands provide an outdoor setting that complement the European manner of the interior of the house.
	antiquesandthearts.com /AnnualIndex/\CS0-12-05-2000-12-38-34 (1837 words)

	Marjorie Merriweather Post: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...Marjorie Merriweather Post Marjorie Merriweather Post Marjorie Merriweather...12, 1973) (or Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May) was a leading American...She was born in Springfield, Illinois, U.S., the daughter of C. Post and Ella Letitia...
		...Merriweather; one of their daughter Marjorie Merriweather Post 's husbands was E. Hutton.
		Their first daughter was Adelaide; their second daughter, Eleanor Post Close, later Eleanor Post Hutton, married director Preston Sturges[?].
	www.encyclopedian.com /ma/Marjorie-Merriweather-Post.html (338 words)

	Hillwood Museum and Gardens :washingtonpost.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Post held court through six decades and four husbands, all of whom she divorced.
		Post's Washington era didn't begin until she was 47, when she married lawyer Joseph E. Davies.
		Post pursued Russian decorative arts for the rest of her life, adding plates from the Kremlin service, 70 pieces by jeweler-to-the-czars Carl Faberge, and the dazzling "Portrait of Countess Samoilova" oil painting by Karl Briullov, a Russian Gainsborough, which hangs in the ballroom.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/cityguide/profile?id=792121&p=print (2195 words)

	Marjorie Merriweather Post Collection at South Plains College
		The Marjorie Merriweather Post Collection of paintings is on permanent display in the Fine Arts Building and in the foyer of the Library on the Levelland campus.
		Marjorie Post (1887-1973) was the daughter of cereal magnate C.W. Post, on whose land the town of Levelland was founded in 1912.
		Post was also an avid collector of both the fine and decorative arts, and a noted philanthropist and socialite.
	www.southplainscollege.edu /finearts/post_gallery (219 words)

	UF: Smathers Libraries: Special Collections: The Hatch Papers
		Key to MMP Versions and Drafts: Version one is by Alden and Allene Hatch and covers to the time of Post's marriage to Joe Davies and their embarkation for Moscow, January, 1937.
		Draft two spells Merriweather correctly, incorporates suggested revisions from draft 1A, changing pagination so that chapter 1 has 7 lleaves, etc. Draft three is a further revision of draft 2, with additional chapters on Russian experiences and a "Synopsis" of a plan to finish the book.
		Marjorie Merriwe[!]ther Post by Alden and Allene Hatch, Ch.
	web.uflib.ufl.edu /spec/manuscript/Hatch/Hatch3D.htm (1855 words)

	C.W. Post Campus
		The magnificent Tudor/Elizabethan-revival style mansion that houses the administrative offices of the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, Long Island, New York is the former residence of cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.
		Marjorie Merriweather Post and her husband Edward F. Hutton, purchased the property (177 acres) in 1921 from Mr.
		Post constructed this house in 1928 for daughter, Adelaide, and her first husband, Thomas (Tim) Durant.
	www.liu.edu /history/marj_merri.html (7588 words)

	Powell's Books - American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post by
		American Empress is a sweeping history of the dramatic life of heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, daughter of breakfast-cereal magnate C. Post.
		As a young girl growing up in the Midwest, Marjorie Post helped glue cereal boxes in her father's barn, later became a board member of his company, wed a diplomat and by late middle age was widely acknowledged as the unofficial "Queen of Washington, D.C." The glamorous and warm-hearted Mrs.
		Post was a woman well ahead of her era, whose natural business acumen created the frozen foods industry and transformed the Postum Cereal Company into the General Foods Corporation.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0595301460-0 (227 words)

	C. W. Post Summary
		Post's first breakfast cereal premiered in 1897, Post named the Grape Nuts cereal after tasting a sample and deciding that the nuggets had a nutty flavor.
		He married Ella Letitia Merriweather; one of their children, Marjorie Merriweather Post, married Edward F. Hutton, and donated the land for the C.
		Post Campus of Long Island University, which was founded in 1954, the 100th anniversary of C. Post's birth.
	www.bookrags.com /C._W._Post (1124 words)

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		Marjorie was to get her first taste of art collecting in furnishing and decorating these expensive digs.
		Post undertook an expansion, remodeling, and redecorating project designed not just to create a spacious and elegant new home but also a museum, eventually to become the showcase for her impressive art collection.
		Post continued adding to her collection important European pieces even as she held forth in her role as one of the most important social and behind-the-scenes political powers in the nation's capital.
	users.1st.net /jimlane/2000arch/10-3-00.html (661 words)

	C.W. Post \| Location
		The C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University is located on 307 beautiful acres in Brookville New York, on the north shore of Long Island.
		The campus is set in the idyllic neighborhood known as the "Gold Coast," an historic suburban community that has been the subject of popular novels and major motion pictures.
		It is shaped by modern buildings and historic mansions, including the former homes of Post Cereal Company heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and financial wizard E.F. Hutton.
	www.cwpost.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/location (175 words)

	Lamson Library » American Empress : The Life And Times Of Marjorie Merriweather Post
		Her circle of friends ran the gamut from Florenz Ziegfeld and Billie Burke to the duke and duchess of Windsor, her niece by marriage was that poor little rich girl Barbara Hutton, and her youngest daughter is the film actress Dina Merrill.
		But hers was not merely a life of reflected glory, and in American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post, author Nancy Rubin chronicles nine decades of American history as lived and influenced by one of this country’s most dazzling, formidable women.
		Marjorie, who as a child glued together Postum boxes in her father’s barn, was soon a millionaire’s ambitious daughter.
	www.plymouth.edu /library/opac/record/1255083 (384 words)

	Nancy Rubin Stuart - American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post(1995, 2002)
		Post had four husbands – among them, stockbroker, E.F. Hutton and Joseph Davies, ambassador to Soviet Russia under Stalin – built several glittering mansions, including Palm Beach’s legendary Mar-A-Lago and sailed the seven seas on her huge yacht, the Sea Cloud.
		Post was also mother to actress Dina Merrill.
		Post was a woman well ahead of her era, whose natural business acumen created the frozen foods industry and helped transform the Postum Cereal Company into the General Foods Corporation.
	www.nancyrubinstuart.com /work2.htm (600 words)

	Post Hostess with the Mostest - TIME
		Marjorie Merriweather Post lived as queens once were wont to do and now seldom can afford.
		Last week, at her Georgian estate in Washington, D.C., Marjorie Post died quietly of a heart attack at age 86, and with her death a gilt-edged volume of American history came to an end.
		The Post family fortunes (last estimated as high as $250 million) began with Charles William Post, a farm-machinery salesman and inventor whose Welsh ancestors had come to America in 1633.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,907928,00.html?iid=chix-del (624 words)

	Marjorie Merriweather Post
		Marjorie was to get her first taste of art collecting in furnishing and decorating these expensive digs.
		Post undertook an expansion, remodelling, and redecorating project designed not just to create a spacious and elegant new home but also a museum, eventually to become the showcase for her impressive art collection.
		Post continued adding to her collection important European pieces even as she held forth in her role as one of the most important social and behind-the-scenes political powers in the nation's capital.
	www.humanitiesweb.org /human.php?s=g&p=a&a=i&ID=868 (661 words)

	Furnishing Hillwood: Marjorie Merriweather Post's passion for French style - Hillwood Museum & Gardens Magazine ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The neoclassical style of the Louis XVI period had appealed to Americans since the time of Thomas Jefferson, and it was revived in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, appreciated for its intrinsic restraint and rational spirit.
		In 1916 Post and her first husband, Edward Close (1882--1955), acquired a beaux arts mansion in New York City that Horace Trumbauer (1868--1938) had built for the Burden family at the corner of Ninety-second Street and Fifth Avenue.
		In 1923 Post and her second husband, Edward Francis Hutton (1875--1962), accepted a developer's offer to tear down the Burden house and erect an apartment building on the site.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_3_163/ai_98641323 (872 words)

	Recreational Sports \| C. W. Post
		The C.W. Post Campus, which is rich in history, is located on Long Island's famed Gold Coast, on the former Brookville estate of cereal heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post.
		Post's father, the founder of the Post Cereal Company (now a division of Kraft Foods, Inc.).
		The C.W. Post campus is distinguished by programs of excellence with small classes in business, education, computer science, public administration, health professions and nursing, information studies, visual and performing arts, and liberal arts and sciences.
	www.cwpost.liunet.edu /cwis/cwp/pratt/ClubSports/ice/recruit.htm (445 words)

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		Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887?1973) was, in many ways, a foremother and role model for contemporary professional women.
		The daughter of C.W. Post, an entrepreneur who made his fortune in pre-packaged foods, Marjorie?s earliest memories are of gluing cereal boxes in the family?s barn.
		During this marriage, Post, now in middle age and always a generous philanthropist, started funding civic and artistic causes, including the National Symphony Orchestra, the Washington Ballet, and the Kennedy Center.
	www.forewordmagazine.net /reviews/printreviews.aspx?ID=2817 (472 words)

	LES CHRONIQUES DE LOULOU » 2007 » mai
		Marjorie Post a donné certains de ses bijoux au musée Smithsonien de Washington DC ou y sont exposé les œuvres d’Harry Winston.
		Le pavillon Merriweather Post, un lieu de rendez-vous extérieur pour les concerts, à Columbia, Maryland a été nommé en son honneur, de même que le parc Marjorie Post à Massapeque, New York.
		Quand Marjorie prit les rènes de la compagnie, elle valait 20 millions et elle la dirigea pendant 8 ans en attendant que son deuxième mari E.F. Hutton en prit la direction en 1920.
	loulou.quebecblogue.com /2007/05 (1698 words)

	Amazon.com: American Empress:: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post: Books: Nancy Rubin Stuart (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Her father, C.W. (Charles William) Post, cured of "invalidism" at the Battle Creek, Mich., sanatorium of Dr. John Kellogg (inventor of packaged breakfast cereal), went on to develop Postum, a coffee substitute, and Post Toasties cereal.
		When C.W. killed himself in 1914, Marjorie, his only child, became sole heir of the Postum Cereal Co. With her sexually unfaithful second husband, stockbroker E.F. Hutton, Postum acquired Clarence Birdseye's frozen foods company, General Foods, which, partly through Post's influence as a board member, diversified into a food empire.
		Post inherited her fortune at the age of 27 from her father, C.W. Post, an early leader in the dry cereals industry.
	www.amazon.com /American-Empress-Times-Marjorie-Merriweather/dp/0679413472 (1009 words)

	H-Net Review: Christopher D. Felker on American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie ...
		Although Marjorie Post's relationships with rich and influential men would have been a tempting organizational principal for any biographer, Rubin correctly places her diversity of roles at the center of the book's structure.
		As Rubin says, "Though no feminist, Marjorie had evolved into an individual with a strong sense of her own identity and a history that would no longer be linked to the name of any man" (p.
		Marjorie's early childhood under such exciting and privileged circumstances was indeed quite special, but success could not ameliorate the essentially unhappy character of C.W. Post's marriage to his spouse Ella.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=10563871932227 (873 words)

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