Edward C. Post

Edward Church Post (September 9, 1845 – July 5, 1915) After his father's death in 1851, his mother remarried to his uncle, Wright Eli Post. His sister, Mary Alma Post, died young, and his brother, Frederick Alfred Post, was married to Harriet Bininger (daughter of Abraham Bininger)

His paternal grandparents were Joel Post and Alma (née Floyd) Post, who was a sister of U.S. Representative Charles A. Floyd. Besides his stepfather, who was his uncle, his paternal aunt was Anne (née Post) Livermore. His uncle John Alexander Post married Adeline Forbes. They lived at and were buried at Pau, France, where their eldest son, John Morris Post, served as American vice-consul. Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom. Post was a member of the Knickerbocker Club, the Century Club, the New York Yacht Club, the Newport Reading Room and the Clambake Club of Newport. After his death, his collection was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Emilie was the daughter of Edward King and Emma Sophia (née Thorn) King, the niece of William Knapp Thorn Jr. and the granddaughter of Emily Almira (née Vanderbilt) Thorn (a daughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt). They maintained a home in New York City, at 350 West End Avenue, and one in Newport, Rhode Island on, known as "Needwood" on Parker Avenue.

Post died from complications affecting his heart at his home in Newport on Bellevue Court on July 5, 1915. His funeral was held at Emmanuel Church and he was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. His widow converted to the Catholic faith in 1912, and later donated her Newport home, named Stoneleigh on Narragansett Avenue, to the Father General of the Carmelite order for use as a monastery in 1930, after which Father Paschasius, master of its House of Novices at New Orleans became the spiritual director of the monastery. Mrs. Post died at her home in Buckfast, Devonshire, England in March 1948.