Entrepreneur. She will be remembered as the woman who turned a loaf of bread into a million-dollar business, and even into the 21st century, she is known for her Pepperidge Farm frozen cakes and Texas toast, which can be found in most American grocery stores. Born Margaret Fogarty, the oldest of five children in a second-generation Irish family, she was an enterprising lady known as one of the great business leaders of her time. After graduating valedictorian of her high school class in 1915, she spent nine years working in New York in the banking business and on Wall Street before marrying Wall Street Broker Henry Rudkin in 1923. The couple had three sons. In 1929, the same year as the start of the Great Depression, she and her family moved to Pepperidge Farm in Fairfield, Connecticut. Her youngest son suffered a severe allergy to commercially baked bread, which led to her attempting to bake bread. Although she had never been a baker, she tried baking some all-natural stone-ground whole-wheat bread with vitamins and nutrients. After some trial and errors in baking, she started selling her "Pepperidge Farm" breads in area grocers and by 1939, Pepperidge Farm breads production soared to one million loaves. Her operation thrived and she founded Pepperidge Farms Incorporated in 1940, with its first real bakery factory in 1940. During World War II, supplies were cut and impacting her business. On July 4, 1947, Pepperidge Farm celebrated Independence Day by cutting the ribbon on a new state-of-the-art bakery in Norwalk, Connecticut. During the 1950s, her products included different variety breads, fancy pastries and a line of cookies. In 1961, she decided to sell for $28 million the Pepperidge Farm Company to another family-run food company, Campbell Soup. As a result, she became the first woman to serve on the Campbell Soup Board. Her "The Margaret Rudkin Pepperidge Farm Cookbook" was published in 1963 and was the first cookbook to make the bestseller list of "The New York Times." She died of breast cancer at 69 in New Haven, Connecticut.