What do you know about Johnny Appleseed?

Question

I could look this up I am sure, but thought it would be fun to see what peeps had to offer. Do you know Johnny Appleseeds real first and last name? Was he married? And what kind of apple did he plant?

Answer 1

Well, I do know that his birthday is September 26th. I know this because last month my youngest son came home and asked me why I forgot someone, "very important", Birthday. I started freaking our because we have 5 family members with the 26th (of different months) as their birthdates, Finally he told me it was Johnny Appleseed. I was releived...though we did have some applesauce in his honor at supper that night. Oh and his real name was John Chapman. Here is some more for ya...


"John Chapman - A Gentle Hero"
Johnny Appleseed was born in Leominster, Massachusetts on September 26, 1774. His real name was John Chapman.

His father, Nathaniel Chapman, was one of the Minutemen who fought at Concord on April 19, 1775, and later in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. John's mother, Elizabeth Symond Chapman, had three children: Elizabeth, who was born in 1770, John, and Nathaniel Jr., who died shortly after birth in 1776. John's mother, who was sick from tuberculosis, died just three weeks after her third child.

Although there is no proof, it is reasonable to assume that Elizabeth's parents took care of John and his sister while their father was in the Army. Nathaniel married his second wife, Lucy Cooley of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, in 1780. With their family of ten children, Nathaniel and Lucy lived in Longmeadow for many years. Johnny and Elizabeth lived with them for at least part of that time.

There is little authentic information available about Johnny's life with the new family. However, he did start his westward journey about 1797. "Johnny Appleseed" was not a scatter of seeds many people believe. He was a practical nurseryman. He realized that there was a real need and an opportunity for service in supplying seeds and seedlings.

For the most part, moving ahead of the pioneers, Johnny started many nurseries throughout the Midwest by planting seeds which he bought from cider mills in Pennsylvania. In order to assure stability of the newly established homesteads, the law required each settler to plant fifty apple trees the first year. Because of the poor transportation that existed in the interior in those days, apples were a practical necessity in the early settlers diets.

John Chapman, or Johnny Appleseed, owned many tracts of land throughout Ohio and Indiana. He used this land to plant apple seeds, transplant seedlings and set out orchards. He sold and gave trees to the pioneer settlers. John Chapman spread religion as well as apples.

A deeply religious man, John Chapman became a self-appointed missionary for the Church of the New Jerusalem, a Christian Church based on the Biblical interpretations of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish scientist and theologian. John shared his religious tracts and his Bible with the settlers who listened to him.

His love for his neighbor made him accepted as a peacemaker between the Indians and the settlers.Just short of his seventy-fifth birthday, Johnny Appleseed died on March 18,1845 in Fort Wayne, Indiana after more than 50 years of travel. His path through the East and Midwest is today dotted with many monuments to the memory of this man who fulfilled the Biblical requirements "To Do Justly, To Love Mercy and To Walk Humbly With His God." Credit to Leominster Historical Commission

Answer 2

Johnny Appleseed was a legendary American who planted and supplied apple trees to much of the United States of America. Many people think that Johnny Appleseed was fictional character, but he was a real person.

Johnny was a skilled nurseryman who grew trees and supplied apple seeds to the pioneers in the mid-western USA. Appleseed gave away and sold many trees. He owned many nurseries in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana, where he grew his beloved apple trees. Although he was a very successful man, Appleseed lived a simple life. It is said that as Johnny traveled, he wore his cooking pot on his head as a hat!

Johnny Appleseed was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, on September 26, 1774. His real name was John Chapman, but he was called Johnny Appleseed because of his love for growing apple trees.

Johnny died at the age of 70; He is buried in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He had spent 50 years growing apple trees and traveling to spread his precious trees around his country.

A deeply religious man, John Chapman became a self-appointed missionary for the Church of the New Jerusalem, a Christian Church based on the Biblical interpretations of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish scientist and theologian. John shared his religious tracts and his Bible with the settlers who listened to him.

His love for his neighbor made him accepted as a peacemaker between the Indians and the settlers. His path through the East and Midwest is today dotted with many monuments to the memory of this man who fulfilled the Biblical requirements "To Do Justly, To Love Mercy and To Walk Humbly With His God.

Answer 3

he planted cider apples--the apples he grew from his seeds were only good for making hard cider, also known as applejack--he was bringing the gift of alcohol to early america like a flesh and blood dyonysus--used to be common when someone at a party was drinking to heavily, people would let them know by asking, "what are we celebrating? Johnny appleseed's birthday?"

Answer 4

I know that his real name was John Chapman and that he wandered the American frontier planting apple orchards. I have heard that he was a convert to the Swedenborgian religion. That is about the extent of my knowledge. I will add a few sites below if you really want to look into him.

Answer 5

Johnny Appleseed was not real and he planted nothing but babies

Answer 6

I can tell you what religion he was. He was a Swedenborgian (a follower of Emanuel Swedenborg). He and Helen Keller had that in common. His name was John Chapman. He didn't marry.

Answer 7

He wears a pot on his head, and goes around planting apples to make apple cider.