The Republican journal., 1879-02-06
Johnny Appleseed.

labors OF an obscure pioneer nursury
man, whose real name is hardly known.
He was called Johnny Appeseed. The
| good that he did lives after him. bearing
annual fruit over an area of one hundred
thousand square miles, extending from
| the Ohio river TO the great northern lakes.
Many Of the best orchards are from trees
which had their first growth in his forest
nurseries. The work which this simple
| hearted and industrious man did 50 well
was assumed voluntarily and is all the
more praiseworth that he knew he should
never reap the benefit thereof Perhaps
It is we'll that there are few such unset
fish souls in the world scattered at long
| intervals, like diamonds in dust holes. \
correspondent of the Evening Post gives
an account of him and his labors from
which the following is condensed
Jonathan Chapman was born in Boston
about the year E15. How he drilleu from
that point to the wilds of Western Penn
| sylyanla, where he was first known to
have induged his peculiar monomania
for the planting OF apple-trees in the
wilderness. is not known. The rapid set
tIement CT that part OF the country, how
ever, soon drove him further westward
| In 1901 he entered the Territory of Ohio
with a horse-load otapple- seeds, gathered
from the elder presses Of Western Penn
| sNllanla coming first to Licking county.
and planting his seeds III many fertile
! spots on and about the banks of Licking
! Creek. For the next i've years ne dSap-
! peAred, passing the period, doubtless in
the establishment OF other nurseries in Il
| different quarter. In 1906 he was seen by
a pioneer settler OF Jefferson county,
/ drifting slowly down the Onic River III
two canoes, lashcd together, and loaded
with apple seeds. These he was trans
porting westward, fol the purpose oi ere
atlnE orchards upon the tulthcst Verge OF
white settlement,
The canoe voyage Of l-OG appears to
have been the only occasion upon which
Johnny adopted that method ot trans
portaton. all his other Journeys having
been made on foot over the old trail lead-
lnG from Fort DuQuesue to Detroit by the
way OF Fort Sandusky. Having planted
one stock q, seeds. he would return To
/ Pennsl lVaMa for another. gathering them
from the CIDER presses Ut different places
! These seeds he conveyed to their dcatiuu-
ton ID rude leathtrn bags. Sometimes
the bars found TRANSFORMATION on The bdcI,
Of an aged or broken-down horse whicu
their owner had merci.u.y rescued from
harder usage: but more trrquentIy Oh bis
own sturdy shoulders. \ long and toni
some Journey it was. Lit Johnny. im-
pclled in his errentrjcltjcs IN some pnaN
lng misery of the heart which coulI nn}e
find relief in incess3nr. InotI,.n. nr.,ctlt3t,.,I
hy his phiIantbrnpjc maaoln3nia i}unr
unhesitatiurll sbouldcrrI Ii. bar, of .l,,-
nlp-,rpds. and n4urtr.ttif,.r H.. r.mulr
Wilderness planted them i'm sn,u,. ...iI+,l-
ed Spot culnhinin.r njc-llras,,n,,,.. .,uJ
fertility Of s.1i lptri1r fhrm .,r,y uut1
required by the seftIrrs Whose han.p.
had HI The mean ti-nr Sprnn.r NJ, M. -hr
nejrhhorhooa of IN. j,,l3tal cir4Iin.r. nh
THIS way fine Wilderness M. maa,rtu l,,.-
som jl<r 4 rose Aud rla tnundatin0. y3,
Iald tnr thlt immense or,,,ytb M t,.,i- tr,.,s
whose lirld forms 81 ,rnDor-an- ] par- of
the animal Drn,lllrrs t ms r,3fr nf ne
/ State.
When The Trees verr ready, fir sale
.L,hu,ly either sold rIefn himself a,.a}.r,
low mice IN. letr rhan, In ,.h,,.r. M snu,,.
one ia sell f,r him In This nl.,rt.r If s.,l.s
he was AS rnrfhndjc3I as amy merchant
If me customer WIS foo nom ia unr.t,.,sa
trees. which treourntIy ttap,pnrd h. ,rot
fhon virbunt r,l II h hn+ta,. ,.;r.,f,o
stances hut desrjfuIe N rrady cnsb
JOHNNY made some convenient rradp t,l,