Marjorie Merriweather Post married four times. In 1905, she - TopicsExpress



          

Marjorie Merriweather Post married four times. In 1905, she married investment banker Edward Bennett Close of Greenwich, Connecticut and divorced in 1919. Their eldest daughter, Adelaide, married three times, to Thomas Wells Durant, Merrall MacNeille, and Augustus Riggs. Their second daughter, Eleanor Post Close, later known in the media as Eleanor Post Hutton, married six times, to film director Preston Sturges, Etienne Marie Robert Gautier, George Curtis Rand, Hans Habe, Owen D. Johnson (son of author Owen Johnson), and orchestral conductor Leon Barzin. (Via his second marriage, Edward Bennett Close would become the paternal grandfather of actress Glenn Close.) Post married for a second time, in 1920, financier Edward Francis Hutton. In 1923, he 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 in 1929. Post and Hutton divorced in 1935. They had one child, Nedenia Marjorie Hutton, better known as actress Dina Merrill. In 1935, Post married her third husband, Joseph E. Davies, a Washington, D.C. lawyer. Before the couple divorced in 1955, they lived in the Soviet Union. In 1951, the house (the original Hillwood) in which they resided in Brookville, L.I., New York, was sold to Long Island University for USD $200,000. It became C.W. Post College in 1954. Her final marriage, in 1958, was to Herbert A. May, a wealthy Pittsburgh businessman and the former Master of Fox Hounds of The Rolling Rock Hunt Club in Ligonier, Pennsylvania. That marriage ended in divorce in May 1964 and she subsequently reclaimed the name Marjorie Merriweather Post. In addition to Hillwood (D.C.) and other estates, Marjorie Merriweather Posts other lavish home was Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Designed by Joseph Urban, it was purchased by Donald Trump in 1985.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:55:03 +0000

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