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Professor W. I. Schreiber, head of the German department of the [[College of Wooster]], did significant research on the origin of the Christmas tree custom. He reported to the ''Wooster Daily Record'' in 1947 that although August Imgard introduced the Christmas tree here in [[Wooster, Ohio]], it was not the first Christmas tree in Ohio nor in the United States. Some of his research revealed the following: <ref> "First Christmas Tree Date Is Now Pushed Back To 1832." ''Wooster Daily Record,'' Thursday, January 2, 1947, p. 4. </ref>

Professor W. I. Schreiber, head of the German department of the [[College of Wooster]], did significant research on the origin of the Christmas tree custom. He reported to the ''Wooster Daily Record'' in 1947 that although August Imgard introduced the Christmas tree here in [[Wooster, Ohio]], it was not the first Christmas tree in Ohio nor in the United States. Some of his research revealed the following: <ref> "First Christmas Tree Date Is Now Pushed Back To 1832." ''Wooster Daily Record,'' Thursday, January 2, 1947, p. 4. </ref>

* 1832 - Christmas tree in Cambridge, later Milton, Massachusetts, erected by a German immigrant, Chars. Follen

* 1832 - Christmas tree in Cambridge, later Milton, Massachusetts, erected by a German immigrant, Chas. Follen

* 1834 - Christmas tree in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, erected by Constantin Herring, a German doctor, and Friederich Knorr, Herring's teacher friend

* 1834 - Christmas tree in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, erected by Constantin Herring, a German doctor, and Friederich Knorr, Herring's teacher friend

* 1835 - Christmas tree in Cincinnati, Ohio

* 1835 - Christmas tree in Cincinnati, Ohio