Edward Church Post (September 9, 1845 – July 5, 1915)[1] was an American heir and art collector who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age.
They lived at and were buried at Pau, France, where their eldest son, John Morris Post, served as American vice-consul.
[2] His maternal aunt, Abby Mauran Church, was married his paternal uncle, Joel Browne Post, the parents of architect George B.
[10] Post died from complications affecting his heart at his home in Newport on Bellevue Court on July 5, 1915.
[11] His widow converted to the Catholic faith in 1912,[12] 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.