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A legendary life
Marjorie Merriweather Post
1887 – 1973
Business leader, philanthropist, and owner of General Foods.
Her story
A life that changed history
Marjorie Merriweather Post helped expand her inherited food company into General Foods through acquisitions that included well-known American brands. She also became a major philanthropist and art collector, and her Washington estate now operates as Hillwood museum.
“There is nothing to equal it. Not even on Fifth Avenue.”
Letter to attorney F. B. Ransom describing her Harlem townhouse and salon, 1913