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Johnny Appleseed
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American nurseryman and missionary (1774–1845)
Key facts
- Born
- John Chapman , ( 1774-09-26 ) September 26, 1774, Leominster , Province of Massachusetts Bay , British America
- Died
- March 18, 1845 (1845-03-18) (aged 70), Fort Wayne, Indiana , U.S.
- Occupations
- Nurseryman conservationist missionary
- Known for
- Proliferation of orchards throughout the American frontier
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Chapman
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Leominster
- Place of death
- Fort Wayne
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Johnny Appleseed photograph cropped.png
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- Commons category
- Johnny Appleseed
- date of birth
- 1774-09-26
- date of death
- 1845-03-18
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
John Chapman (September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845), better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds (as opposed to trees grown with grafting) to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and the Canadian province of Ontario, as well as the northern counties of West Virginia. He became an American icon while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance that he attributed to apples. He was the inspiration for many museums and historical sites such as the Johnny Appleseed Museum in Urbana, Ohio, and today is recognized as an American folk hero.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Johnny Appleseed” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.