
Ancestry of
C. W. Post
Founder of Post Cereals
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- 1st Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 1
- Father:
- Charles Rollin Post
- Mother:
- Caroline Cushman Lathrop
- Birth Date:
- 16 Oct 1854
- Birth Location:
- Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 9 May 1914
- Death Location:
- Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Co., California
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- Notes:
Founder of Postum (aka Post) Cereals Company
C. W. Post committed suicide by sticking a rifle barrel in his mouth and pulling the trigger.
Charles William "C.W." Post
View famous kin of Charles William Post
Marriages for Charles William "C.W." Post
- Spouse:
- Elle Letitia Merriweather
- Spouse:
- Leila - - - - - -
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Sources for Charles William "C.W." Post
- 1 Close, Jessie, with Pete Earley and Glenn Close, Resilience: Two Sisters and a Story of Mental Illness, New York: Grand Central Publishing (2015).
- 2 Mead, Spencer Percival, Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, New York: The Knickerbocker Press (1911), 521.
- 3 Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 52.
- 4 Wikipedia, "C. W. Post", (accessed 05/14/2015).