Actual List of Claimants to the Title of Inventor of the Ice Cream Cone

David Avayou. Atlantic City, New Jersey. 1904, at World’s Fair in St. Louis.

Abe Doumar. 1904. Holyland souvenir vendor at World’s Fair who said he gave the idea to the waffle vendor.

Max Goldberg, Illinois Baking Company. Chicago, Illinois. 1903.

Ernest A. Hamwi. Damacus, Syria. 1904, at World’s Fair in St. Louis.

Italo Marcioni or Marchiony. New Jersey. 1896.

Charles E. Menchez. Akron, Ohio.

Paradise Ice Cream Co., New York City. 1897.

France supposedly had paper and metal cones in the Nineteenth century.