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Emily Post

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Emily Post

American Author on Etiquette


Who was Emily Post?

Emily Post was an American author who is most famous for her writings on etiquette. She is the founder of The Emily Post Institute which continues to promote etiquette and civility in America and around the world.

Family Facts

Emily Posts's great-grandchildren Peggy Post and Peter Post have continued the tradition of writing about etiquette having authored a number books and articles about the subject.

Emily Posts's father was architect Bruce Price. One of Bruce's most notable accomplishments was being the architect who designed Quebec's famous Château Frontenac.

Andrew Lee, a 2nd great-grandfather of Emily Post, is said to have been a member of the infamous Paxtang Boys. The Paxtang Boys were a group of Scotch-Irish militants who massacred a group of Conestoga Indians in 1763.

A 3rd great-grandfather of Emily Post named Lazarus Stewart was said to be one of the leaders of the Paxtang Boys. Iroquois Indians would later exact revenge when Lazarus Stewart was killed in the Wyoming massacre. The massacre occurred when loyalists accompanied by Iroquois warriors killed over 300 American patriots on July 3, 1778, in the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania. Some of the survivors claimed that the Indians hunted down fleeing patriots and tortured to death up to forty patriots who had surrendered.

Famous Kin

Emily Post was a descendant of Mayflower passenger John Alden. She also has a number of famous family connections through John Alden including both U.S. Presidents John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams. Her family relationships to fellow authors include Francis Scott Key (“The Star Spangled Banner”), F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby), and Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises).

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One of Emily Posts's great-grandfathers was Colonel Josiah Price. He was a veteran of the American Revolution and he married Jane Scott. Josiah's father was said to have come from Wales and settled in Pennsylvania just north of the Maryland border in an area called Welsh Run. I have not been able to identify either the father of Josiah Price or the father of his wife Jane Scott.

False Claims

In Laura Claridge's 2008 biography Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners she brings up the family connection to Francis Scott Key, author of the U.S. national anthem The Star Spangled Banner. Ms. Claridge mentions on page 7 that Emily's paternal grandmother Marian (Bruce) Post was a first cousin to Francis Scott Key. Just a few pages later on page 16 Ms. Claridge makes a reference to Bruce Price, the father of Emily and son of Marian, as a descendant of Francis Scott Key. This latter statement cannot possibly be true as Bruce Price's parents would have been contemporaries of Francis Scott Key.

The truth is that Bruce Price is neither a descendant of Francis Scott Key nor is his mother Marian (Bruce) Price a first cousin. Marian is a second cousin of Francis Scott Key. This would make Bruce Price a second cousin one time removed, and Emily Post a second cousin two times removed. Ms. Claridge may have been steered wrong by the will of Charles Key Bruce, brother of Marian. In his will he makes a bequest to “my cousin Francis Scott Key”. What Charles left out of the will was that Francis Scott Key was his second cousin and not first cousin.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Emily Post

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Diane Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

8th cousin 2 times removed
via John Alden

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Parker Stevenson

TV and Movie Actor

8th cousin 1 time removed
via John Alden

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Henry P. Baldwin

15th Governor of Michigan

6th cousin 2 times removed
via John Alden

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Charles M. Dale

66th Governor of New Hampshire

8th cousin
via John Alden

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James B. Conant

President of Harvard University

8th cousin
via John Alden

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William Henry Moore

Co-Founder, U.S. Steel and Nabisco

21st cousin
via Sir Gilbert de Clare

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

8th cousin 2 times removed
via John Alden

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Ann B. Davis

TV Actress

8th cousin 2 times removed
via John Alden

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Paul Walker

TV and Movie Actor

8th cousin 2 times removed
via John Alden

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Eva Marie Saint

TV and Movie Actress

8th cousin
via John Alden

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Jennifer Coolidge

TV and Movie Actress

8th cousin 3 times removed
via John Alden

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Seth Low

Mayor of New York City
President of Columbia University

19th cousin
via Sir Richard de Burgh

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Seth Low

Mayor of New York City
President of Columbia University

21st cousin
via Sir Gilbert de Clare

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William Woodbridge

2nd Governor of Michigan

17th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Richard de Burgh

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William Woodbridge

2nd Governor of Michigan

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Gilbert de Clare

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Roger Nash Baldwin

Co-Founder of the ACLU

8th cousin
via John Alden

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George Winston

New Age Pianist

8th cousin 2 times removed
via John Alden

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Tom Brokaw

TV Journalist and Author

8th cousin 2 times removed
via John Alden

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Melvil Dewey

Inventor of the Dewey Decimal System

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Gilbert de Clare

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Kurt Cobain

Singer and Songwriter

8th cousin 5 times removed
via John Alden

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Shadoe Stevens

Radio Disc Jockey

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Richard de Burgh

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Linda Gray

TV and Movie Actress

8th cousin 3 times removed
via John Alden

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David Crosby

Singer and Songwriter

15th cousin 5 times removed
via Robert Stewart

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David Crosby

Singer and Songwriter

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Richard de Burgh

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David Crosby

Singer and Songwriter

16th cousin 2 times removed
via Robert II, King of Scotland

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