C. W. Post

C. W. Post or, more fully, Charles William Post (1854 – 1914), was a breakfast food manufacturer and a pioneer of the prepared-food industry. Post visited the Battle Creek Sanitarium, operated by John Harvey Kellogg, and was inspired to start his own cereal company based on making products similar to those used at the sanitarium. He invented the coffee substitute "Postum" and the cereals "Grape-Nuts" and "Post Toasties," and he founded the Postum Cereal Company, which became a food-manufacturing empire that produced one of the largest fortunes of the early 20th century. He was in the vanguard in the use of print advertising, and is said to have invented the cents-off coupon.

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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, married E. F. Hutton, and donated the land for the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University, which was founded in 1954, the 100th anniversary of C. W. Post's birth.

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1854: 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar)....

1914: 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. (see link for calendar)...

John Harvey Kellogg: Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was a medical doctor in Battle Creek, Michigan who ran a sanitarium using holistic methods, with a particular focus on nutrition, enemas and exercise....

C. W. Post related Images and Photos (experimental)

Post Alley	Markie Post	Markie Post	M. Ward: Post-War CD
M. Ward: Post-War CD	Painted Post	Weathered Post	Post-It, The Office Poster
Post and Anemones	Post Office Dover Delaware	Post Office New London Connecticut	Trading-Post on the Red River