C. W. Post or, more fully, Charles William Post ( Events January 13 - The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas. ...1854 _ 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...1914), was a breakfast food manufacturer and a pioneer of the prepared_food industry. He invented the coffee substitute " Postum is a powdered coffee substitute sold by the Post Cereals company. ...Postum" and the cereals " Grape_Nuts is a breakfast cereal produced by Kraft Foods. ...Grape_Nuts" and "Post Toasties," and he founded the Post Cereals, formerly Postum Cereals was founded by C. W. Post. ...Postum Cereal Company, which became a food_manufacturing empire that produced one of the largest fortunes of the early twentieth century. He was a vanguard in the use of print advertising.

He was the son of Charles Rollin Post and Caroline Cushman Lathrop (1824_1914). He married Ella Letitia Merriweather; one of their children, 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. ...Marjorie Merriweather Post, married Please see Edward Hutton for the Russian_born New York dentist Dr. Edward F. Hutton. ...E. F. Hutton, and donated the land for the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University, which was founded in 1954 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...1954, the 100th anniversary of C. W. Post's birth.

External links

• C. W. Post Campus (http://www.liu.edu/history/charleswilliam.html)