Johnny appleseed
with the natural world, distributed apple seeds and religious tracts from the Alleghenies to the Ohio Valley in the U.S.
John Chapman was the 2nd child of Nathaniel Chapman and Elizabeth of Leominster, Massachusetts.
Tradition holds that Nathaniel lost two good farms during the American Revolution, but in fact Johnny father was a farmer of little means, and there is no
deed record of either property.Nathaniel started John Chapman on a career as an orchardist by apprenticing him to a Mr. Crawford, who had apple orchards.
More About Johnny Appleseed..
The popular image of Johnny Appleseed had him spreading apple seeds
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.









