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In 1792, 18-year-old Chapman went west, taking 11-year-old half-brother Nathaniel and his sister with him. Their destination was the headwaters of the Susquehanna
Susquehanna River
The Susquehanna River is a river located in the northeastern United States. At approximately 444 mi long, it is the longest river on the East Coast of the United States and the 16th longest in the United States....
. There are stories of him practicing his nurseryman craft in the Wilkes-Barre
Wilkes-Barre is a city in Northeastern Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, United States. It is the county seat of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania and the central city of the Wyoming Valley....
area and of picking seeds from the pomace
Pomace is the solid remains of grapes, olives, or other fruit after wine press for juice or oil. It contains the skins, pulp, seeds, and stems of the fruit....
at Potomac
The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic Ocean coast of the United States. The river is approximately 383 statute miles long, with a Drainage basin of about 14,700 square miles ....
cider mills in the late 1790s. Another story has Chapman living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania with a population of 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is 2,462,571....
on Grant's Hill in 1794 at the time of the Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion, less commonly known as the Whiskey Insurrection, was a popular uprising that had its beginnings in 1791 and culminated in an insurrection in 1794 in the locality of Washington, Pennsylvania, in the Monongahela River....
.
Land records show that John Chapman was in today's Licking County, Ohio
Licking County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio, United States. As of the United States Census 2000, the population was 145,491. Its county seat is Newark, Ohio and is List of Ohio county name etymologies for the salt licks that were in the area....
, in 1800. Congress
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had passed resolutions in 1798 to give land there, ranging from 160 to 2,240 acre
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s (65-900 hectare
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s), to Revolutionary War
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veterans, but soldiers did not actually receive letters of patent to their grants until 1802. By the time the veterans arrived, Johnny's nurseries, located on the Isaac Stadden farm, had trees big enough to transplant.
Nathaniel Chapman arrived with his second family and sister in 1805. At that point, the younger Nathaniel Chapman rejoined the elder, and his sister had gotten married,so therefore Johnny Appleseed spent the rest of his life as an itinerant planter and sometime-preacher.
By 1806, when he arrived in Jackson County, Ohio
Jackson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio, United States. As of 2000, the population was 32,641. Its county seat is Jackson, Ohio and is List of Ohio county name etymologies for Andrew Jackson, a hero of the War of 1812 who was subsequently elected President of the United States....
, wading down the Ohio River
The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. It is approximately 981 miles long and is located in the eastern United States....
with a load of seeds, he was known as Johnny Appleseed. He had used a pack horse
A packhorse or pack horse refers generally to an Equus such as a horse, mule, donkey or pony used for carrying goods on their backs, usually carried in sidebags or panniers....
to bring seeds to Licking Creek
Licking Creek is a tributary of the Potomac River in Pennsylvania and Maryland in the United States.Licking Creek is born on the west slope of Tuscarora Mountain, near Cowans Gap State Park, flows through eastern Fulton County, Pennsylvania and a corner of Franklin County, Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania, and then enters Washington County, Mar...
in 1800, so it seems likely that the nickname appeared at the same time as his most famous event: Licking the "Path to The West." Once John Chapmen arrived and got out of the river, he was said to actually bend and lick the ground for more than six yards. This actually encouraged animals to follow his path on this long journy, yet nobody really know why this attracted so many animals.
The popular image of Johnny Appleseed had him spreading apple seeds randomly, everywhere he went. In fact, he planted nurseries rather than orchards, built 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 two to tend the nursery. Many of these nurseries were located in the Mohican area of north-central Ohio. This area included the towns of Mansfield
Mansfield, Ohio
Mansfield is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Richland County, Ohio. The municipality is located in north-central Ohio in the western foothills of the Allegheny Plateau, approximately 80 miles southwest of Cleveland, Ohio and 66 miles northeast of Columbus, Ohio....
, Lucas
Lucas is a village #Ohio in Richland County, Ohio in the U.S. state of Ohio. Lucas was founded in 1836, and is part of the Mansfield, Ohio Mansfield metropolitan area....
, Perrysville
Perrysville is a village #Ohio in Ashland County, Ohio, Ohio, United States. The population was 816 at the United States Census 2000....
, and Loudonville
Loudonville is a village #Ohio in Ashland County, Ohio and Holmes County, Ohio counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 2,906 at the United States Census 2000....
.
Appleseed's managers were asked to sell trees on credit, if at all possible, but he would accept corn meal, cash or used clothing in barter. The notes did not specify an exact maturity date-that date might not be convenient-and if it did not get paid on time, or even get paid at all, Johnny Appleseed did not press for payment. Appleseed was hardly alone in this pattern of doing business, but he was unusual in remaining a wanderer his entire life.
He obtained the apple seeds for free; cider mills wanted more apple trees planted since it would eventually bring them more business. Johnny Appleseed dressed in the worst of the used clothing he received, giving away the better clothing in barter. He wore no shoes, even in the snowy winter. There was always someone in need he could help out, for he did not have a house to maintain. When he heard a horse was to be put down, he had to buy the horse, buy a few grassy acres nearby, and turn the horse out to recover. If it did, he would give the horse to someone needy, exacting a promise to treat the horse humanely.
Chapman often eschewed normal clothing, even in the cold of winter, and generally led a harsh, subsistent lifestyle. Contrary to popular belief, Johnny actually didn't wear pots on his head or torn rags for clothing, although he did go barefoot in summers to save leather. According to Harper's New Monthly Magazine, towards the end of his career, he was present when an itinerant missionary was exhorting an open-air congregation in Mansfield, Ohio
Mansfield is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Richland County, Ohio. The municipality is located in north-central Ohio in the western foothills of the Allegheny Plateau, approximately 80 miles southwest of Cleveland, Ohio and 66 miles northeast of Columbus, Ohio....
. The sermon was long and quite severe on the topic of extravagance, because the pioneers were starting to buy such indulgences as calico and store-bought tea. "Where now is there a man who, like the primitive Christians, is traveling to heaven bare-footed and clad in coarse raiment?" the preacher repeatedly asked, until Johnny Appleseed, his endurance worn out, walked up to the preacher, put his bare foot on the stump which had served as a podium, and said, "Here's your primitive Christian!" The flummoxed sermonizer dismissed the congregation.
He spent most of his time traveling from home to home on the frontier. He would tell stories to children, spread the Swedenborgian gospel ("news right fresh from heaven") to the adults, receiving a floor to sleep on for the night, sometimes supper in return. "We can hear him read now, just as he did that summer day, when we were busy quilting up stairs, and he lay near the door, his voice rising denunciatory and thrilling-strong and loud as the roar of wind and waves, then soft and soothing as the balmy airs that quivered the morning-glory leaves about his gray beard. His was a strange eloquence at times, and he was undoubtedly a man of genius", reported a lady who knew him in his later years. He would often tear a few pages from one of Swedenborg's books and leave them with his hosts.
He made several trips back east, both to visit his sister and to replenish his supply of Swedenborgian literature. He typically would visit his orchards every year or two and collect his earnings.
Johnny Appleseed's beliefs made him care deeply about animals. His concern extended even to insects. Henry Howe, who visited all 88 counties in Ohio in the early 1800s, collected these stories in the 1830s, when Johnny Appleseed was still alive:
When Johnny Appleseed was asked why he did not marry, his answer was always that two female spirits would be his wives in the after-life if he stayed single on earth. However, Henry Howe reported that Appleseed had been a frequent visitor to Perrysville, Ohio
Perrysville, Ohio
Perrysville is a village #Ohio in Ashland County, Ohio, Ohio, United States. The population was 816 at the United States Census 2000....
, where Appleseed is remembered as being a constant snuff customer, with beautiful teeth. He was to propose to Miss Nancy Tannehill there-only to find that he was a day late; she had accepted a prior proposal:
It has been suggested that Johnny may have had Marfan syndrome
Marfan syndrome
Marfan syndrome is a genetic disorder of the connective tissue.It is sometimes inherited as a Autosomal dominant trait. It is carried by a gene called FBN1, which encodes a connective protein called fibrillin-1....
, a rare genetic disorder. One of the primary characteristics of Marfan Syndrome is extra-long and slim limbs. All sources seem to agree that Johnny Appleseed was slim, but while other accounts suggest that he was tall, Harper's describes him as "small and wiry."
Those who propose the Marfan theory suggest that his compromised health may have made him feel the cold less intensely. His long life, however, suggests he did not have Marfan's, and while Marfan's is closely associated with death from cardiovascular complications, Johnny Appleseed died in his sleep, from winter plague (presumably pneumonia
Pneumonia is an Inflammation illness of the lung. Frequently, it is described as lung parenchyma/alveolus inflammation and abnormal alveolar filling with fluid ....
).
There is some controversy and vagueness concerning the date of his death and his burial. Harper's New Monthly Magazine of November, 1871 (which is taken by many as the primary source of information about John Chapman) says he died in the summer of 1847. The Fort Wayne Sentinel
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, however, printed his obituary on March 22, 1845, saying that he died on March 18:
The actual site of his grave
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is disputed as well. Developers of Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne is a city in northeastern Indiana, United States and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana. As of July 1, 2008, the city had an estimated population of 251,247, making it the List of United States cities by population Fort Wayne is Indiana's second largest city after Indianapolis, Indiana....
's Canterbury Green apartment complex and golf course
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claim his grave is there, marked by a rock. That is where the Worth cabin in which he died sat.
However, Steven Fortriede, director of the Allen County Public Library
The Allen County Public Library has been part of the social and cultural fabric of Fort Wayne, Indiana and surrounding communities in Allen County, Indiana since 1895....
(ACPL) and author of the 1978 "Johnny Appleseed", believes another putative DisplayLink("http://contentdm.acpl.lib.in.us/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/coll10&CISOPTR=376&REC=1", "gravesite") gravesite, one designated as a National Historic Landmark
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and located in Johnny Appleseed Park
Johnny Appleseed Park, including what was formerly known as Archer Park, is a public park in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It is named after the popular-culture nickname of John Chapman, better known as "Johnny Appleseed," a famous United States pioneer, who was buried on the site....
in Fort Wayne, is the correct site. Johnny Appleseed Park was known until recently as Archer Park and was the former Archer farm.
The Worth family attended First Baptist Church in Fort Wayne, according to records at ACPL, which has one of the nation's top genealogy collections. According to an 1858 interview with Richard Worth Jr., Chapman was buried "respectably" in the Archer cemetery, and Fortriede believes use of the term "respectably" indicates Chapman was buried in the hallowed
Consecration is the ritual dedication to a special purpose or service, usually religious. The word "consecration" literally means "to associate with the sacred"....
ground of Archer cemetery instead of near the cabin where he died.
John H. Archer, grandson of David Archer, wrote in a letter dated October 4, 1900:
The Johnny Appleseed Commission to the Common Council of the City of Fort Wayne reported, "as a part of the celebration of Indiana's 100th birthday in 1916 an iron fence was placed in the Archer graveyard by the Horticulture Society of Indiana setting off the grave of Johnny Appleseed. At that time, there were men living who had attended the funeral of Johnny Appleseed. Direct and accurate evidence was available then. 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 burying ground."
Despite his altruism and charity, Johnny Appleseed left an estate of over 1,200 acres (500 ha) of valuable nurseries to his sister, worth millions even then, and far more now. He also owned four plots in Allen County, Indiana
Allen County, Indiana
Allen County is the largest county in the state of Indiana, United States. As of 2007, the population was 349,488. The county seat and largest city is Fort Wayne, Indiana....
, including a nursery in Milan Township, Allen County, Indiana
Milan Township is one of twenty townships in Allen County, Indiana in the United States. Milan Township is located in east central Allen County, with the Maumee River meandering across the township....
, with 15,000 trees. He could have left more if he had been diligent in his bookkeeping. He bought the southwest quarter (160 acres) of section 26, Mohican Township, Ashland County, Ohio
Ashland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio, United States, and was formed in 1846 from parts of Huron County, Ohio, Lorain County, Ohio, Richland County, Ohio and Wayne County, Ohio Counties....
, but he did not record the deed and lost the property.
The financial panic of 1837
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took a toll on his estate. Trees only brought two or three cents each, as opposed to the "fip-penny bit" (about six and a quarter cents) that he usually got. Some of his land was sold for taxes following his death, and litigation used up much of the rest.
A memorial in Fort Wayne's DisplayLink("http://contentdm.acpl.lib.in.us/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/coll6&CISOPTR=2179&REC=1", "Swinney Park") Swinney Park purports to honor him but not to mark his grave. Also in Fort Wayne, since 1975, a Johnny Appleseed Festival
The Johnny Appleseed Festival is a name given to any number of festivals held in the United States in honor of John Chapman usually in September or October....
has been held in mid-September in Johnny Appleseed Park
Johnny Appleseed Park, including what was formerly known as Archer Park, is a public park in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It is named after the popular-culture nickname of John Chapman, better known as "Johnny Appleseed," a famous United States pioneer, who was buried on the site....
. Musicians, demonstrators, and vendors dress in early 19th century dress, and offer food and beverages which would have been available then. An outdoor drama is also an annual event in Mansfield, Ohio.
March 11 or September 26 are sometimes celebrated as Johnny Appleseed Day. The September date is Appleseed's acknowledged birthdate, but the March date is sometimes preferred because it is during planting season, even though it is disputed as the day of his death. Other sources report that he died on February 18.
Johnny Appleseed Elementary School is a public school located in Leominster, MA, his birthplace.
A large terra cotta sculpture of Johnny Appleseed, created by Viktor Schreckengost
Viktor Schreckengost was an industrial designer and creator of the , an example of Jazz Age art designed for Eleanor Roosevelt during his association with Cowan Pottery....
, decorates the front of the Lakewood High School
Lakewood High School is a public high school located in Lakewood, Ohio, west of Cleveland, Ohio.The school colors are purple and gold. The mascot is the Park ranger....
Civic Auditorium in Lakewood, Ohio
Lakewood is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Area, and borders the city of Cleveland....
. Although the local Board of Education deemed Appleseed too "eccentric" a figure to grace the front of the building, renaming the sculpture simply "Early Settler," students, teachers, and parents alike still call the sculpture by its intended name: "Johnny Appleseed."
He was the first person to make a statue of George Washington entirely out of apple seeds.
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Johnny Appleseed
Why is John Chapman famous?
If this who you are thinking of, John Chapman is Johnny Appleseed.
How tall was johnny Appleseed?
John Chapman (Johnny appleseed)was exactly 6' 11"
Where did Johnny Appleseed go to college?
Did Jonny Appleseed go to school? yes well actually i think he was home schooled
Where did johnny appleseed like to sleep?
On the floor.
What is johnny appleseed famous for?
Johnny Appleseed is famous for him finding apples...Johny appleseed started growing the apples all over the country. Their are many stories about Johnny Appleseed.
Famous peoploes names with apple in it?
Johnny Appleseed
What did Johnny Appleseed travel by?
Johnny Appleseed walked .
Why is John Chapman famous?
If this who you are thinking of, John Chapman is Johnny Appleseed.
How tall was johnny Appleseed?
John Chapman (Johnny appleseed)was exactly 6' 11"
What is the duration of Johnny Appleseed film?
The duration of Johnny Appleseed - film - is 1140.0 seconds.
Who were Johnny Appleseed's parents?
john chapmans, also known as ''johnny appleseed'' parents were Nathaniel dabney Chapman and elizibeth symond Chapman.
Who is the author of Who was Johnny Appleseed?
Who Was Johnny Appleseed was written by Joan Holub and illustrated by Anna DiVito
When was Johnny Appleseed - film - created?
Johnny Appleseed - film - was created on 1948-05-27.
When was Better Known as Johnny Appleseed created?
Better Known as Johnny Appleseed was created in 1950.
When and where was Johnny Appleseed born?
Johnny Appleseed was born on September 26, 1774 in Leominister, Massachusetts.
When did Johnny Appleseed die?
Johnny Appleseed died on March 18, 1845 at the age of 70.
