who was the o henry bar named after

I've heard a few things about that, but the most common one is that the "Oh Henry!" bar was named after some dude, just a regular guy named Henry, who would come into the factory all the time and talk up the girls on the candy-making line. Apparently, the women would get flustered or want his attention, so they were constantly calling out "Oh Henry!" and the company owner just thought it was a catchy name for the new bar. It's kind of a fun little anecdote, though I guess it's never been officially confirmed as the true origin.

It's a contested origin story, but the two main people are either a flirtatious guy named Henry who frequented the candy shop, or the writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter). I'd lean toward the flirtatious guy since that story is more common, but the writer is a really cool connection too, especially for the time when the bar was invented.

There are multiple theories for the "Oh Henry!" candy bar name. The one I learned was that it was named after William Sydney Porter, who wrote under the pen name O. Henry. He was a popular short-story writer and the candy bar's creator was rumored to be a fan, possibly even reading a story about peanuts that gave him the idea for the bar, which is why he honored the author with the name.

I think it's named as an homage to the writer, O. Henry. You know, the guy famous for the short stories with the twist endings, like "The Gift of the Magi." I've seen that mentioned as a solid theory that the original maker was a big fan. The name just seems a little too close to the pen name to be totally random, though some people swear it was some electrician named Henry who was always flirting with the factory workers.

I'm pretty sure the name came from a guy who just kept showing up at the Williamson Candy Company and flirting with the women who made the bar, and his name was Henry. They would yell "Oh Henry!" a bunch, and that’s how the name stuck. It's a cool story, way better than just being named after an author, though that's the other big rumor. I don't think there's any paper trail proving either one, so it's one of those fun food mysteries.