Does ANYONE know where I can find a quote from C.W. Post, the guy who founded Post cereal company?

Answer 1

I think this may help to answer your question, just click on it and read it.

http://www.posttexas.com/Post,Texas.htm

Answer 2

If you mean just ANY quote, go to the library (or surf the web) and find a biography or a biographical description. The former will have lots of quotes. The latter sometimes will have a famous quote.

If you wish to find a specific quote, and you know it exactly, and are looking for a source, I have had some luck just typing the exact quote and googling it.

That way, if it is on the web anywhere, you will find it. The problem is, you probably won't find a good source for the quote. So you'll just have to use the web source. If that attributes the quote to Post, at least you can use that.

Answer 3

C. W. Post visited the Battle Creek Sanitarium operated by John Harvey Kellogg for his failing health. There, he was inspired to start his own cereal company based on the products used at the sanitarium.

In 1895, he founded Postum Cereal Co., with his first product, Postum cereal beverage. He was in the vanguard in the use of print advertising, and is said to have invented the cents-off coupon. Post's first breakfast cereal premiered in 1897, Post named the Grape Nuts cereal after tasting a sample and deciding that the nuggets had a nutty flavor.

In 1908, he followed up the Grape Nuts label with a brand of corn flakes product first called Elijah's Manna that was later renamed Post Toasties.

C.W. Post's business produced one of the largest fortunes of the early 20th century. He married Ella Letitia Merriweather; one of their children, Marjorie Merriweather Post, married Edward 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.

He also attempted to develop a Utopian community in Texas, later named Post, Texas in his honor which became the county seat of Garza County, Texas.

Interesting story.....

Answer 4

If I were you, I would google him.