Murray Lender

[1][2][3] The Washington Post called Lender "the most important man in the modern history of bagels.

[1] That same year, Harry opened a small bagel bakery in New Haven, Connecticut, which catered to the city's Eastern European Jewish community.

[4] All four brothers - Hyman, Sam, Harry and Marvin - entered the family's bagel business, called H. Lender's and Sons.

[2] Harry Lender died in 1958 and the brothers began freezing bagels for sale in 1960.

[1] He had suffered injuries in a fall ten weeks earlier at his home in Aventura, Florida.