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1895-Today Post Consumer Brands
1897-Today Grape-Nuts
1914 On May 9, 1914, despondent over his ongoing stomach illness, Post took his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot.
1914 Post was believed to be suffering from appendicitis and was rushed via a nonstop train from California to Rochester, Minnesota, to be operated on by Dr. William and Charles Mayo, regarded as the preeminent surgeons of the day.
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In the 1995 book American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post, author Nancy Rubin claims that Post did indeed have the Mayo brothers operate successfully sometime between March 5 and 10, 1914.
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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.