What is National Johnny Appleseed Day?
We celebrate the man who made apple (and pear) trees grow abundant with the bounty of their fruit in most of this world on National Johnny Appleseed Day. On September 26th, we commemorate the day of his birth and honor his legendary wit, wisdom, and enduring tale.
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Early life
Nathaniel and Elizabeth Simons Chapman was born John Chapman on September 26, 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel and Elizabeth Simons Chapman. Nobody knows much about his early life other than his mother, who died when he was two. Johnny and his sister (an infant brother had died the previous year) and moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where his father and his sister (an infant brother had died the previous year) and moved to Springfield, Massachusetts. His father served as a Minuteman and fought at Bunker Hill, and fought at Bunker Hill. A grave in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the legendary sower of apple seeds rests, is a grave.
