Benjamin Eisenstadt

Benjamin Eisenstadt

Infobox Person
name = Benjamin Eisenstadt


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birth_date = December 7, 1906
birth_place = New York City
death_date = April 8, 1996
death_place = New York City
occupation = Inventor
spouse = Betty Gellman (1910-2001)
parents =
children = Marvin Eisenstadt
Gladys Eisenstadt
Ira Eisenstadt
Ellen Eisenstadt

Benjamin Eisenstadt (December 7, 1906 – April 8, 1996) was the creator of Sweet'N Low and the founder of the Cumberland Packing Corporation.

Biography

Born in New York City, he first operated a cafeteria across from the Navy Yard in Brooklyn. He then switched to making tea bags after his cafeteria declined in revenue. He came up with the idea of single servings of table sugar to utilize his tea bag machinery. He shopped the idea to the major sugar producers, but since he didn't get a patent, they used his idea without paying him proper royalties. In 1957 he came up with a formula for a powdered saccharin sweetener. Previously saccharin was sold as liquid drops, or tiny, hard-to-dissolve tablets. He mixed the saccharin with dextrose to bulk it up to a teaspoon sized portion, added cream of tartar, and calcium silicate as an anti-caking agent. He marketed it in bright pink packets. His company was also the first to package soy sauce and other single serving condiments. After his company was successful he became Chairman of the Board of Maimonides Research and Development Foundation in Brooklyn. He married Betty Gellman (1910-2001) on October 27, 1931 while living at 1250 44th Street in Brooklyn. They had the following children: Marvin Eisenstadt who married Barbara; Gladys Eisenstadt; Ira Eisenstadt who married Deirdre Howley, and Ellen Eisenstadt who married Herbert Cohen. [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Betty Eisenstadt |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900E5DD153BF93BA2575AC0A9679C8B63 |quote=Beloved wife of the late Benjamin, dear mother of Marvin and Barbara, Gladys, Ira and Deirdre Howley, Ellen and Herbert Cohen, cherished grandmother and loving great-grandmother. ... Widow of Benjamin Eisenstadt, longtime Trustee and benefactor of Maimonides Medical Center, who served as Secretary, Vice Chairman and Chairman during his 20 year tenure. Among Maimonides' major facilities, a testament to their generosity, are the Eisenstadt Administration Building and the Gellman Pavilion, named in memory of Dr. Abraham Gellman, Mrs. Eisenstadt's brother. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Mrs. Eisenstadt's children: Marvin, Ira, Gladys, Ellen, and the entire Eisenstadt family. |publisher=New York Times |date=September 18, 2001 |accessdate=2007-09-25 ]

Death

Benjamin died at age 89, of complications from coronary bypass surgery at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. His daughter, Ellen Eisenstadt, had suggested the bypass surgery and her mother never forgave her for the death of Benjamin. When Betty died in 2001 she had written Ellen and her children out of the will. cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Benjamin Eisenstadt, 89, a Sweetener of Lives. |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E4DB1039F933A25757C0A960958260 |quote=Benjamin Eisenstadt, the innovative Brooklyn businessman who set Americans to shaking their sugar before sweetening their coffee and then shook up the entire sweetener industry as the developer of Sweet 'N Low, died on Monday at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He was 89 and a major benefactor of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. The cause was complications of bypass surgery, his son Marvin said. |publisher=New York Times |date=1996-04-10 |accessdate=2007-07-21 ]

Legacy

Maimonides Medical Center has the Eisenstadt Administration Building and the Gellman Pavilion. The Gellman Pavilion was named in memory of Dr. Abraham Gellman, the brother of Betty Gellman (1910-2001).

Patent

*US patent|3625711

Timeline

*1906 Birth in Brooklyn
*1945 Cumberland Cafeteria closes
*1947 Cumberland Cafeteria converted to Cumberland Packaging Corporation
*1956 Marvin Eisenstadt joins the company
*1970 "Sweet'N Low" registered trademark of Cumberland Packaging Corporation
*1996 Death in Brooklyn
*2001 Death of Betty Gellman, his widow

References

Further reading

*New York Times; December 29, 1996. "Household Names"
*Rich Cohen; [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374272298 Sweet and Low: A Family Story] ; April, 2006 memoir; 272 pages; ISBN 978-0-374-27229-6

External links

* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5418961 NPR: A Bitter 'Sweet' Family History]


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