Gregory Keller, a Catholic priest, invented a machine to automate the production of candy canes.
In Albany, Georgia, Bob McCormack began making candy canes by hand as special Christmas treats for his children and friends.
August Imgard, a German-Swedish immigrant, decorated a small blue spruce with paper ornaments and candy canes in Wooster, Ohio.
The story of candy canes began in the Cologne Cathedral in Germany, where the choirmaster handed out the bent sweet sticks to his youngest singers to keep them quiet during the long Living Creche ceremony.