MARJORIE MERRIWEATHER POST

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'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 and later became one of the wealthiest women in America when her fortune reached to approximately $250 million.
Marjorie Post was born in Springfield, Illinois, the daughter of C. W. Post and Ella Letitia Merriweather.

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Post married four times. In 1905, she married investment banker Edward Bennett Close of Greenwich, Connecticut: They divorced in 1919. Their eldest daughter Adelaide's last husband was Augustus Riggs; their second daughter, Eleanor Post Close, married numerous times. Her last husband was Leon Barzin who was the original musical director of Ballet Society and New York City Ballet. By his second marriage, Edward Close would become the paternal grandfather of actress Glenn Close.

Secondly, she married, in 1920, Edward Francis Hutton, financier. In 1923, Edward Hutton became the chairman of the board of the Postum Cereal Company, and they developed a larger variety of food products, including Birdseye Frozen Foods. The company became the General Foods Corporation. Post and Hutton divorced in 1935. Their only child, Nedenia, became an actress under the name Dina Merrill.
Thirdly, she married, in 1935, Joseph E. Davies, a Washington lawyer: They divorced in 1955. The couple lived in the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1938, while he served as the second American ambassador to the Soviet Union. Their home on Long Island, New York, (purchased while married to E.F. Hutton, and known as ''Hillwood'' was sold to Long Island University in 1951. The property was called C.W. Post College and has since been named C.W. Post Campus of