Editing Marjorie Merriweather Post (section)

==Early life==
Marjorie Merriweather Post was born in [[Springfield, Illinois]], the daughter and only child of [[C. W. Post]] and Ella Letitia Merriweather. At age 27, following her father's death in 1914, she became the owner of the rapidly growing [[Post Cereals|Postum Cereal Company]], founded in 1895. She inherited a $20 million fortune.<ref name="Robertson">{{cite news|last1=Robertson|first1=Nan|title=A Lot of Grape Nuts|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/07/02/archives/a-lot-of-grape-nuts-post.html|access-date=December 9, 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 2, 1978}}</ref> 

Post lived in Battle Creek, Michigan from ages 3 to 14. She then moved to Washington, D.C. to attend the [[Mount Vernon Seminary and College]] (now the [[George Washington University]]'s Mount Vernon Campus). She maintained a close lifelong relationship with her alma mater and served as its first alumna trustee. Today, a collection of her correspondence with Mount Vernon administrators is maintained by GWU's Special Collections Research Center.<ref>[https://searcharchives.library.gwu.edu/repositories/2/resources/519 Guide to the Mount Vernon Seminary and College Collection of Biographical Materials and Correspondence with Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1901-1999], Special Collections Research Center, Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, The George Washington University</ref> Post's complete collection of personal papers, as well as those of her father, are held by the [[University of Michigan]]'s [[Bentley Historical Library]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-85519| title=Post Family Papers: 1882-1973| publisher=Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan| access-date=February 23, 2017}}</ref>