Harold Bend was the Minnesota state amateur golf champion in 1902 and 1904 and was slated to take part in the individual tournament at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics. He was, however, ultimately one of the entered golfers who did not start the competition. A member of The Town & Country Club in St. Paul, he continued golfing for much of his life and won several Minnesota state senior titles during the 1920s. By career he was a businessman who founded a sugar brokerage company, Bend-Southall-McBratine, in the mid-1920s. He was still active in his mid-80s and split his time between Minnesota and Florida, until he was struck by a car in his early-90s. He never recovered fully, but nevertheless lived to the age of 103.