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    Marjorie Merriweather Post (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist. She was the daughter of...
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    Letitia Merriweather; they had one daughter, Marjorie. Ella supported her husband throughout his career and cared for him when he was ill. As Post became...
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  • without warning, his company was not left rudderless. His daughter, Marjorie Merriweather Post, had been raised in the business and was familiar with virtually...
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    businesswoman and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post between 1924 and 1927, during the Florida land boom. At the time of her death in 1973, Post bequeathed the property...
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  • William Merriweather Peña (1919–2018), American architect Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973), an American businesswoman Merriweather Post Pavilion...
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  • Post Close was born on December 3, 1909, in Greenwich, Connecticut, the second daughter of heiress, socialite and businesswoman Marjorie Merriweather...
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    given as December 9, 1925. She was the only child of Post Cereals heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her second husband, Wall Street stockbroker Edward...
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    Beach, Florida: Built in 1927 with his second wife Marjorie Merriweather Post as a winter residence. Post would end up keeping the house after the divorce...
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    residence of businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist and collector Marjorie Merriweather Post, Hillwood is known for its large decorative arts collection that...
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    Hamburg, Germany. Launched as a private yacht as Hussar V for Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1931, she later served as a weather ship for the United States...
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    Manor slave plantation. It is named for the American Post Foods heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post to honor her for her years of sustained financial support...
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  • Eleanor Post Close (Eleanor Post Hutton), from his father's first marriage to Post Cereals heiress and General Foods owner Marjorie Merriweather Post.[citation...
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    making such claims. C.W. Post died in 1914, and his daughter Marjorie Merriweather Post took over the company. The Postum Cereals company acquired others...
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    university in the LIU system. The campus is named after C. W. Post, father of Marjorie Merriweather Post, who sold her Long Island estate known as Hillwood to...
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    expanded and renovated in 1923 by Marjorie Merriweather Post, former owner of General Foods and the daughter of C. W. Post. The "camp", near Keese Mill, in...
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    Davies and Mary divorced in 1935. Davies married his second wife Marjorie Merriweather Post in December 1935. She was an heiress to the Postum Cereal Company...
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    The earliest attested version of the earrings was purchased by Marjorie Merriweather Post from Pierre C. Cartier in 1928. At this point, they comprised...
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    to protect historic structures. General Foods and Post Cereals heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post bequeathed Mar-a-Lago to the United States upon her...
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    Company. Joseph Pew, Philadelphia; inherited wealth: Sun Oil. Marjorie Merriweather Post, Washington, DC; inherited wealth: General Foods. James Sottile...
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  • Merrill – American actress and socialite (daughter of E.F. Hutton & Marjorie Merriweather Post) Mark Patton – 1980s television and film actor Stephanie Seymour...
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  • visited the property during its years under the ownership of Marjorie Merriweather Post. The painting has been described as depicting "a young, tanned...
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    Rubin, Nancy (1995). American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post. Villard Books. pp. 76–77. ISBN 9780595752027. Retrieved 27 February...
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  • Winston in 1959. Winston mounted it in a ring and sold it to Marjorie Merriweather Post, who later donated it to the Smithsonian Institution. The Briolette...
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    held in the Hillwood Museum in Washington, D.C., as part of the Marjorie Merriweather Post Collection. Each panel of the egg contains a Cyrillic cipher of...
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  • C.W. Post College of Long Island University, where he was President of local Sigma Beta Epsilon fraternity that had Marjorie Merriweather Post as its...
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    Marjorie Armstrong Post (November 4, 1950 – August 7, 2021), known professionally as Markie Post, was an American actress. Her best known roles include:...
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    Winston, an attorney named Harry Berenson, and the socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post, the pair eventually sold the necklace to David Michel, a gem...
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  • 177-acre (72 ha) estate known as Hillwood from cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her third husband Joseph E. Davies. Located in Brookville...
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    Edward Bennett "E.B." Close, who married Post's daughter, Marjorie Merriweather Post, in 1905. Although some residents stayed, the town developed slowly...
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  • Marjorie Pollard (1899–1982), British field hockey player and writer Marjorie Pollitt, British teacher and communist activist Marjorie Merriweather Post...
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