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 Charles William Post - Battle Creek MI Posted by:  Don.Morfe
N 42° 18.413 W 085° 10.708
16T E 650131 N 4685456
Businessman, Inventor. He was a manufacturer pioneer most noted for being the developer and founder of the Post Breakfast Cereal Company. In 1891, he moved to Battle Creek, Michigan, where he invented Grape-Nuts and Post Toasties, breakfast foods.
Waymark Code: WM12TAG
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 07/12/2020
Views: 1
He is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Section O, Lots 19 through 32.
Description:
From Find A Grave: Businessman, Inventor. He was a manufacturer pioneer most noted for being the developer and founder of the Post Breakfast Cereal Company. In 1872, he worked for the next fourteen years as a salesman and manufacturer of agricultural machines. For the next fourteen years, he invented and secured patents on such farm equipment as cultivators, a sulky plow, a harrow, and a haystacker. Relocating to Fort Worth, Texas, in 1886, he became associated with real-estate, acquired a 300-acre ranch on the outskirts of the city and developed it into the area now known as Riverside. In 1891, he moved to Battle Creek, Michigan, where he invented Grape-Nuts and Post Toasties, breakfast foods which by the turn of the century made him a multi-millionaire. He also served as president of the American Manufacturers Association and the Citizen's Industrial Association. Still remaining with a strong desire for farming, he returned to Texas, in 1906 and purchased over 225,000 acres of ranchland in Garza and Lynn Counties. There he opened the plains region to agricultural development by introducing varieties of grain sorghums such as milo and kafir. In 1907, Post City was named for him and remained being called so until after his death at age 59.
Date of birth: 10/26/1854
Date of death: 05/09/1914
Area of notoriety: Science/Technology
Marker Type: Tomb (above ground)
Setting: Outdoor
Fee required?: No
Web site: [Web Link]
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Not listed
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