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American pioneer nurseryman (1774–1845)

The Reverend Johnny Appleseed
Appleseed in the 1840s
Built-in	John Chapman (1774-09-26)September 26, 1774 Leominster, Massachusetts, British America
Died	March 18, 1845(1845-03-18) (aged 70) Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.
Occupation	Missionary and gardener

John Chapman (September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845), better known every bit Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Ontario, as well as the northern counties of present-twenty-four hours Due west Virginia. He became an American fable while notwithstanding alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples. He was likewise a missionary for The New Church (Swedenborgian)^[1] and the inspiration for many museums and historical sites such as the Johnny Appleseed Museum^[2] in Urbana, Ohio.

Family

Chapman was born on September 26, 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts,^[3] the 2d child of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Chapman (née Simonds, married February 8, 1770). His birthplace has a granite mark, and the street is now called Johnny Appleseed Lane.

Chapman's mother, Elizabeth, died in 1776 shortly after giving nascence to a 2d son, Nathaniel Jr., who died a few days later. His father, Nathaniel, who was in the military, returned in 1780 to Longmeadow, Massachusetts, where, in the summertime of 1780, he married Lucy Cooley.^{[ane] [4]}

According to some accounts, an 18-twelvemonth-one-time John persuaded his 11-yr-erstwhile half-brother Nathaniel Cooley Chapman to get west with him in 1792. The duo apparently lived a nomadic life until their father brought his large family westward in 1805 and met upward with them in Ohio. The younger Nathaniel decided to stay and help their male parent farm the land.

Soon afterward the brothers parted means, John began his apprenticeship as an orchardist nether a Mr. Crawford, who had apple tree orchards, thus inspiring his life's journey of planting apple trees.^[5]

Life

Johnny Appleseed Birthplace site in Leominster, Massachusetts

There are stories of Johnny Appleseed practicing his nurseryman arts and crafts in the expanse of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and of picking seeds from the pomace at Potomac River cider mills in the late 1790s.^[1] Another story has Chapman living in Pittsburgh on Grant'southward Loma in 1794 at the time of the Whiskey Rebellion.^[6]

The popular image is of Johnny Appleseed spreading apple seeds randomly everywhere he went. In fact, he planted nurseries rather than orchards, congenital fences around them to protect them from livestock, left the nurseries in the care of a neighbor who sold trees on shares, and returned every year or 2 to tend the nursery. He planted his kickoff nursery on the bank of Brokenstraw Creek, south of Warren, Pennsylvania. Adjacent, he seems to have moved to Venango Canton, along the shore of French Creek,^[7] merely many of these nurseries were in the Mohican River expanse of north-cardinal Ohio. This area included the towns of Mansfield, Lisbon, Lucas, Perrysville and Loudonville.^[8]

The story of Johnny Appleseed well-nigh ended in 1819 in Ohio. One morning he was picking hops in a tree when he fell and caught his neck in the fork of the tree. Shortly subsequently he fell one of his helpers, eight-year-old John White, found him struggling in the tree. Unable to get him out of the tree, young John White cut the tree down, saving Chapman's life.^[ix]

According to Harper's New Monthly Mag, toward the cease of his career he was present when an afoot missionary was exhorting an open-air congregation in Mansfield, Ohio. The sermon was long and severe on the topic of extravagance, because the pioneers were buying such indulgences equally calico and imported tea. "Where now is there a human who, like the primitive Christians, is traveling to heaven barefooted and clad in coarse raiment?" the preacher repeatedly asked until Johnny Appleseed, his endurance worn out, walked upwards to the preacher, put his bare human foot on the stump that had served equally a podium, and said, "Here'south your primitive Christian!" The flummoxed sermonizer dismissed the congregation.^[10]

He would tell stories to children and spread The New Church gospel to the adults, receiving a flooring to sleep on for the night, and sometimes supper, in return. "We can hear him read now, but every bit he did that summer solar day, when nosotros were busy quilting upstairs, and he lay near the door, his vocalism ascent denunciatory and thrillin—stiff and loud every bit the roar of wind and waves, so soft and soothing as the balmy arrogance that quivered the morning-celebrity leaves about his grayness beard. His was a strange eloquence at times, and he was undoubtedly a man of genius," reported a lady who knew him in his subsequently years.^[11] He fabricated several trips back E, both to visit his sister and to replenish his supply of Swedenborgian literature.^{[ commendation needed ]}

He preached the gospel equally he traveled, and during his travels he converted many Native Americans. The Native Americans regarded him as someone who had been touched by the Groovy Spirit, and fifty-fifty hostile tribes left him strictly lone.^[12]

He cared very deeply almost animals, including insects. Henry Howe visited all the counties in Ohio in the early nineteenth century and collected several stories from the 1830s, when Johnny Appleseed was still alive:^[thirteen]

One cool autumnal night, while lying past his camp-burn in the forest, he observed that the mosquitoes flew in the blaze and were burned. Johnny, who wore on his head a tin can utensil which answered both as a cap and a mush pot, filled it with water and quenched the fire, and afterwards remarked, "God forbid that I should build a fire for my comfort, that should be the ways of destroying whatsoever of His creatures." Another time, he allegedly made a camp-burn in a snowstorm at the end of a hollow log in which he intended to laissez passer the night simply plant it occupied by a bear and cubs, so he removed his fire to the other end and slept on the snow in the open air, rather than disturb the deport.

In a story nerveless by Eric Braun,^[14] he had a pet wolf that had started post-obit him after he healed its injured leg.

More controversially, he also planted dogfennel during his travels, believing that it was a useful medicinal herb. It is now regarded as a noxious, invasive weed.^[15]

According to another story, he heard that a horse was to be put down, so he bought the horse, bought a few grassy acres nearby, and turned it out to recover. When it did, he gave the horse to someone needy, exacting a promise to treat it humanely.^[16]

During his afterwards life, he was a vegetarian.^[17] He never married. He idea he would find his soulmate in heaven if she did not appear to him on world.^[eighteen]

Decease

Unlike dates are listed for his decease. Harper's New Monthly Mag of Nov 1871 was manifestly wrong in saying that he died in mid 1847, though this is taken by many as the primary source of information well-nigh John Chapman.^[x] Multiple Indiana newspapers reported his death date as March eighteen, 1845. The Goshen Democrat published a expiry detect for him in its March 27, 1845, edition, citing the twenty-four hours of expiry equally March 18 of that twelvemonth. The paper'due south death notice read:

In Fort Wayne, on Tuesday, 18th, inst John Chapman, commonly known by the name of Johnny Appleseed, most seventy years of historic period. Many of our citizens volition call back this eccentric individual, as he sauntered through town eating his dry rusk and cold meat, and freely conversing on the mysteries of his religious organized religion. He was a devoted follower of Emanuel Swedenborg, and notwithstanding his apparent poverty, was reputed to exist in practiced circumstances.

The Fort Wayne Sentinel printed his obituary on March 22, 1845, saying that he died on March 18:^[19]

On the same day in this neighborhood, at an advanced age, Mr. John Chapman (meliorate known as Johnny Appleseed).

The deceased was well known through this region by his eccentricity, and the strange garb he usually wore. He followed the occupation of a nurseryman, and has been a regular visitor here upwards of 10 years. He was a native of Pennsylvania nosotros understand but his abode—if home he had—for some years past was in the neighborhood of Cleveland, where he has relatives living. He is supposed to accept considerable property, yet denied himself almost the common necessities of life—non so much perchance for forehandedness as from his peculiar notions on religious subjects. He was a follower of Swedenborg and devoutly believed that the more he endured in this earth the less he would take to suffer and the greater would be his happiness future—he submitted to every privation with cheerfulness and content, believing that in so doing he was securing snug quarters hereafter.

In the most inclement weather he might be seen barefooted and almost naked except when he chanced to pick upward manufactures of old clothing. Withal the privations and exposure he endured, he lived to an farthermost quondam historic period, not less than lxxx years at the time of his death—though no person would have judged from his appearance that he was threescore. "He always carried with him some work on the doctrines of Swedenborg with which he was perfectly familiar, and would readily converse and argue on his tenets, using much shrewdness and penetration.

His death was quite sudden. He was seen on our streets a day or two previous.

The site of his grave is as well disputed. Developers of the Canterbury Green apartment complex and golf class in Fort Wayne, Indiana, claim that his grave is at that place, marked by a stone. That is where the Worth cabin sabbatum in which he died.^[20]

Steven Fortriede, director of the Allen County Public Library (ACPL) and author of the 1978 Johnny Appleseed, believes that another gravesite is the right site, in Johnny Appleseed Park in Fort Wayne.^{[20] [21]} Johnny Appleseed Park is a Fort Wayne city park that adjoins Archer Park, an Allen County park. Archer Park is the site of John Chapman's grave mark and used to be a part of the Archer family unit farm.

The Worth family attended First Baptist Church in Fort Wayne, according to records at ACPL, which has one of the nation's tiptop genealogy collections.^[22] According to an 1858 interview with Richard Worth Jr., Chapman was cached "respectably" in the Archer cemetery, and Fortriede believes that use of the term "respectably" indicates that Chapman was buried in the hallowed ground of Archer cemetery instead of near the cabin where he died.^[xx]

John H. Archer, grandson of David Archer, wrote in a letter^[23] dated October 4, 1900:

The historical account of his death and burying past the Worths and their neighbors, the Pettits, Goinges, Porters, Notestems, Parkers, Beckets, Whitesides, Pechons, Hatfields, Parrants, Ballards, Randsells, and the Archers in David Archer'southward private burial grounds is substantially right. The grave, more especially the common caput-boards used in those days, have long since decayed and get entirely obliterated, and at this fourth dimension I do not think that any person could with whatsoever caste of certainty come within fifty feet of pointing out the location of his grave. Suffice it to say that he has been gathered in with his neighbors and friends, as I have enumerated, for the majority of them lie in David Archer's graveyard with him.

The Johnny Appleseed Commission Council of the Metropolis of Fort Wayne reported, "[A]southward a part of the celebration of Indiana'southward 100th birthday in 1916 an fe fence was placed in the Archer graveyard by the Horticulture Society of Indiana setting off the grave of Johnny Appleseed. At that time, at that place were men living who had attended the funeral of Johnny Appleseed. Direct and accurate testify was available so. There was little or no reason for them to make a mistake about the location of this grave. They located the grave in the Archer burial ground."^[24]

Legacy

Johnny Appleseed left an manor of over 1,200 acres (490 ha) of valuable nurseries to his sister.^[25] He also owned four plots in Allen County, Indiana, including a nursery in Milan Township with xv,000 copse,^[20] and 2 plots in Mount Vernon, Ohio.^{[26] [27]} He bought the southwest quarter (160 acres) of section 26, Mohican Township, Ashland County, Ohio, simply did not record the human action and lost the property.^[15]

The fiscal panic of 1837 took a toll on his estate.^[xvi] Trees brought merely two or three cents each,^[16] equally opposed to the "fippenny scrap" (about half-dozen and a quarter cents) that he ordinarily got.^[28] Some of his state was sold to pay taxes post-obit his expiry, and litigation used upwards much of the residual.^[sixteen]

Since 1975 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the Johnny Appleseed Festival has been held the third full weekend in September in Johnny Appleseed Park and in Archer Park. Musicians, demonstrators, and vendors clothes in early-19th-century attire and offering food and beverages that would accept been available then.^[29] Like festivals are held in Sheffield, PA;^[30] Apple Creek, OH;^[31] Crystal Lake, IL;^[32] Lisbon, OH^{[ citation needed ]}; and Paradise, CA.^[33]

In 2008 the Fort Wayne Wizards, a minor-league baseball game club, changed their name to the Fort Wayne TinCaps. In their first season with the new name, 2009, the Tincaps won their only league championship. The name "Tincaps" refers to the tin chapeau (or pot) which Johnny Appleseed allegedly wore. The team mascot is named "Johnny".

From 1962 to 1980 a high-school able-bodied league made up of schools from around the Mansfield, Ohio, area used the proper name the "Johnny Appleseed Briefing". The Fort Wayne TinCaps, a minor league baseball team in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where Chapman spent his concluding years, is named in his honor.^[34]

In 1966 the U.S. Postal service issued a 5-cent stamp commemorating Johnny Appleseed.^{[35] [36]}

A memorial in Leap Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio, stands on the summit of the grounds in Department 134. A circular garden surrounds a big stone upon which a bronze statue of Chapman stands, face looking skywards, holding an apple-seedling tree in ane hand and a book in the other. A bronze cenotaph identifies him equally Johnny Appleseed and gives a brief biography and eulogy.

March 11 and September 26 are sometimes historic as Johnny Appleseed Day. The September appointment is Appleseed'south acknowledged birthdate, but the March date is sometimes preferred because it falls during planting flavor.

Johnny Appleseed Unproblematic School is a public school in Leominster, Massachusetts, his birthplace. Mansfield, Ohio, one of Appleseed's stops in his peregrinations, was abode to Johnny Appleseed Eye School until it closed in 1989.

Jill and Michael Gallina published a biographical musical, Johnny Appleseed, in 1984.^{[37] [38]}

A big terracotta sculpture of Johnny Appleseed, created by Viktor Schreckengost (1906-2008), adorns the front end of the Lakewood High Schoolhouse Civic Auditorium in Lakewood, Ohio. Although the local board of education accounted Appleseed as well "eccentric" a effigy to grace the front of the building (renaming the sculpture simply "Early on Settler") - students, teachers, and parents alike still call the sculpture by its intended name: "Johnny Appleseed".^[39]

Urbana University in Urbana, Ohio, maintains one of 2 Johnny Appleseed Museums in the world, which is open to the public. The Johnny Appleseed Educational Middle and Museum hosts a number of artifacts, including a tree that is believed^{[ by whom? ]} to take been planted by Johnny Appleseed. They also provide a number of services for inquiry, including a national registry of Johnny Appleseed'south relatives. In 2011 the museum was renovated and updated. The educational center and museum was founded^{[ by whom? ]} on the belief that those who have the opportunity to report the life of Johnny Appleseed volition share his appreciation of didactics, his country, the surroundings, peace, moral integrity and leadership.^{[ citation needed ] [40]}

Supposedly, the simply surviving tree planted by Johnny Appleseed grows on the farm of Richard and Phyllis Algeo of Nova, Ohio.^[41] Some marketers claim it is a Rambo.^[42] Some fifty-fifty make the claim that the Rambo was "Johnny Appleseed's favorite variety",^[43] ignoring that he had religious objections to grafting and preferred wild apples to all named varieties. It appears most nurseries are calling the tree the "Johnny Appleseed" diversity, rather than a Rambo.^{[ commendation needed ]} Different the mid-summer Rambo, the Johnny Appleseed diversity ripens in September and is a baking-applesauce diverseness similar to an Albemarle Pippin. Nurseries offer the Johnny Appleseed tree as an immature apple tree for planting, with scions from the Algeo stock grafted on them.^[44] Orchardists do non announced to exist marketing the fruit of this tree.^{[ commendation needed ]}

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  A multifariousness called the "Johnny Appleseed" is similar to these Albemarle Pippins, good for baking and apple sauce.

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  Community owned Sholan Farms-the last working apple tree orchard in the birth place of Johnny Appleseed-Leominster, Ma.

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  Statue of Johnny Appleseed welcoming travelers to the Johnny Appleseed Visitor and Data Center on Ma Hwy Rt ii in Lancaster, Mass., near the nativity identify of Johnny Appleseed.

Apple cider

Author Michael Pollan believes that since Chapman was against grafting, his apples were not of an edible variety and could be used only for cider: "Really, what Johnny Appleseed was doing and the reason he was welcome in every cabin in Ohio and Indiana was he was bringing the gift of alcohol to the borderland. He was our American Dionysus."^{[45] [46]}

Encounter as well

• Folk hero
• The Human being Who Planted Trees
• Seed bombing
• Silviculture
• Tree planting

References

Citations

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2. ^ "The Johnny Appleseed Education Centre and Museum". National Apple tree Museum. Retrieved March xv, 2021.
3. ^ Ways, Howard (2011). Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 19. ISBN978-1-4391-7825-6.
4. ^ The New England Roots of "Johnny Appleseed", The New England Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 3. (Sep. 1939), pp. 454-469
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6. ^ "The Side by side Folio: A People's History of Pittsburgh (Selected shorts)". Pittsburgh Mail service-Gazette. Archived from the original on January 22, 2008. Retrieved Jan 11, 2008.
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13. ^ Howe, Henry (1903). Richland Canton. Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio (485), New York:Dover.
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22. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved May 13, 2015. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy equally title (link)
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40. ^ Compare: "National Apple tree Museum". nationalapplemuseum.com. Archived from the original on December 29, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2011. The Johnny Appleseed Educational Heart and Museum, sponsored past the Johnny Appleseed Society and Urbana University, seeks to promote the ethics by which Johnny Appleseed lived and to memorialize the many roles he played in the development of the Northwest Territory.
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46. ^ "Author Michael Pollan Talks About the History of the Apple tree". Morning Edition (NPR). June 5, 2001. Archived from the original on February 9, 2015. Retrieved February half-dozen, 2015.

Further reading

• William Kerrigan, Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard: A Cultural History. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

External links

• "The Appleseed Walk" an homage to the legacy of Johnny Appleseed
• "Johnny Appleseed: A Pioneer Hero" from Harper's Mag, November 1871.
• Johnny Appleseed Festival in Sheffield, PA
• Searching for Johnny film documentary past director Miroslav Mandic
• Searching for Johnny Official movie site
• "Johnny Appleseed Trail in North Central MA"

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