The Nome daily nugget., 1935-07-09

had been erected In his honor.
 In park in Mansfield Ohio, he would see a tall marble shaft on which is inscribed: Tn memory of John Chapman, best known as Johnny Appleseed, pioneer nurseryman of Rlchland county from 1910 to 1S30"
 In the city of Ashland in the same state he would find a monument made of boulders to which is affixed bronze tablet which says: Tn memory of Ashland County Pioneers, including Johnny Appleseed, John Chapman an Ohio hero, patron saint of American orchards and soldier of peace. He went about doing good. Erected by the school children of Ashland county Ohio July 2S 1915, on the tooth anniversary of the founding of Uniontown, Ashland"
 In the same county, near Mifln, he would find his name, the date of his birth and death, and the place of his burial engraved on the Copus Massacre monument, honoring James Copus and the three soldiers who were killed there by the Indians during the War of 1912.
 In Fort Wayne, Ind, he would a huge granite boulder bearing bronze tablet which displays the figure of man and the following inscription: "Johnny Appleseed was born in Massachusetts In 1776. Died near Fort Wayne in 1S43. Buried in David Archer's cemetery Pioneer apple grower of Indiana and Ohio. The Indiana Horticultural society and all those who are endeavoring to carry on the work he nobly commenced join in dedicating this monument to the memory of his deeds.'
 But it Is probable that of all the memorials honoring Johnny Appleseed the one which will soon adorn his native city of Springfield, Mass, would delight him most. For 1t Is no marker of cold stone and bronze. Instead 1t is to be living memorial, one which will bloom with beauty each recurring spring It Is a four-acre tract of land, which may have once belonged to his father and over which he undoubtedly roamed boy, and there the Springfield Garden club, sponsors of the project, will plant apple trees and other fruitbearers and maintain this unique memorial public park
 The tract of land is roughly leaf-shaped with the Mill river as its stem and It's irregular con tours hold promise of making a place of un- usual beauty. Towering crabapples will have a place to display their spectacular profusion of bloom. There will be wide variety of the sturdy old New England varieties of apples which Johnny spread broadcast throughout the East and the Old Northwest. Low hisides will be fragrant with laurel, and the park will also contain white oak hawthorn, red bud, dogwood, wild plum, butternut, sassafras, honeysuckle, trumpet vine, the fox grape from which the modern Concord grape Is descended), wild strawberries, blackberries and blueberries-in fact, all kinds of trees and shrubs connected with the Johnny Appleseed tradition.
 Rustic bridges to link the banks of the Mill river fin its brief course through the park and the illusion of distance and height in the
 
 tall trees the upper levels of the slopes Although the trees, such as Johnny loved, and the park itself will be the memorial to him. there is also to be in 1t large field boulder bearing a bronze tablet with brief sketch of his association with that city.
 Although so much legend has become attached to Johnny Appleseed's name that it is difficult to know where fact leaves off and fiction begins, 1t seems clearly established that he was born in or near Leomnster Mass on September 26, 1774 He was one of three children born to Nathaniel Chapman and Elizabeth Simons Cor Simonds) Chapman, who were married on Feb ruary S. TITO. Nathaniel Chapman served in company of Minute Men at the outbreak of the Revolution, but after the death of his wife on July IS, 1776, he appears to have taken his two motherless children Elizabeth, six and Johnny, two tanother son, Nathaniel, born that year, had died in infancy), and moved to Springfield. Local tradition says that Nathaniel Chapman supported his family by turning out the wooden bowls and dishes used by the people of that day and that young John was his constant com panion going with him as he pedded his wood- enware in the towns around Springfield. There is also a tradition that Johnny's love for apple trees dated from his youthful fondness for the one which stood outside the door of his fathers log cabin and under which he played as a boy.