The story of hamburger begins in October 1885, near the small town of Seymour, Wisconsin. Charlie Nagreen was said to have been only 15 years old on August 5, 1885, when he first began frying his hamburger patties in butter and selling them from an ox-drawn cart at the county fair.
Charlie was going to Outagamie County’s first annual; fair, where he wanted to earn some extra money selling meatballs. The meatball was easy to assemble and the young lad knew people would be hungry after walking around viewing the agricultural exhibits at the fair. As Charlie sold meatballs at the fair, he noticed that customers had trouble eating and strolling at the same time.
People were impatient. They wanted to visit Mr. John Bull’s popular beehives (encased in glass), to see the fancy new harvesting machines and to enjoy all the other thrilling attractions at the fair.
They didn’t want to waste time eating meatballs. Charlie suddenly had an idea, if he squashed the meatballs and put them between two slices of bread, people could walk and eat. And so Charlie invented the hamburger.
German immigrants lived in Charlie’s hometown of Hortonville, Wisconsin and he later claimed that the new sandwich was named the German of Hamburg long famous for its ground beef steaks. Charlie continued selling burgers at the Outagamie Country Fair until 1951.
Charlie had not only invented the hamburger but also composed one of the first advertising jingles for it. He continued to sell his creation at the county fair for the next 65 years.
The invention of hamburger 
