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Most 19th-century Americans found Christmas trees an oddity. The first record of one being on display was in the 1830s by the German settlers of Pennsylvania, although trees had been a tradition in many German homes much earlier. The Pennsylvania German settlements had community trees as early as 1747.
The second and third verses were probably written in 1824 by the German poet and Leipzig schoolmaster, Ernst Gebhard Anschutz (1800-1861). The Christmas tree was certainly popular in Germany by this time, although the practice would not become popular in England or America until several decades later.