The Nome daily nugget., 1935-07-09
II Fort Wdupe

l In 1793 Nathaniel Chapman was drowned while | fishing in the Connecticut river near South Had | ley Falls and soon afterwards Johnny's wander | ngs began. Soon after his fathers death, Johnny is said to have packed his meager per sonal belongings, walked down to the town clerks office. where he left instructions that his l fathers cabin be given to the most needy family | In Springfield, and started for the West. According to one story, Johnny accompa- nied west by half brother. (His father is said to have married second time and by this sec ond wife had ten children, five boys and five girls One of the boys named Jonathan, and some writers evidently confuse him with Johnny Appleseed, whom they call Jonathan Chapman') But whether he was accompanied by his half brother made the trip alone, he seems to have reached Pittsburgh In 1794, estab- lished himself on farm there, and planted an orchard From that period in his life dated his name of Johnny Appleseed
 To emigrants, floating down the Ohio their way to new homes in the Vest Johnny Apple seed became a familiar figure He would in yariaby present each family with package of apple seeds and urge them to plant them as as they had found their new homes in the West. As there not enough seeds on his place to supply all the pioneers, Johnny went from farm to farm to buy more. His farmer friends regarded him as somewhat queer" but the emigrants were glad enough to receive his offerings In 1799 Johnny appeared wanderer in the valley of the Potomac Tn the summer of 1900 he was again in western Pennsylvania.
 In the fall of 1900 woman living the banks of the Ohio river near what Is now the city of Steubenyille saw a crazy-looking craft floating down the river. It was made of two canoes lashed together and heavily laden with bags. On top of them sat a withholding man., clad in ragged clothes and wearing broad brimmed hat. It was Johnny Appleseed and the bags contained little seeds which he had gathered from the cider presses of Pennsyl- yana. He was starting out the advance guard of the wave of pioneer settlement which pouring into the fertile Ohio valleys. Johnnys idea was to plant his apple seeds so that the trees would be growing when the set tiers arrived.
 The chronology of Johnnys life from this point on is somewhat uncertain. It Is known that he established nursery at Marietta, Ohio, and that he used this place as the base for his operations. He wandered from place to place in that state, planting his seeds and caring for the trees already growing. His travels carried him into Indiana, and to Illinois, where, on a road leading into St. Louis, there stood until few years ago an orchard which he is said to have planted.
 Frequently he revisited the cider mills of Pennsylvania and Ohio to get more seeds which he would wash free of pulp, sort and sew into deerskin bags. These bags he presented to emil grants they continued to penetrate the far ther regions of the rich Mississippi valley, and some of these tiny bags are still the treasured possessions of descendants of the pioneers who profited by Johnny's bounty. Occasionally word drifted back to Marietta that the trees which he had planted were not doing we'll, or that the settlers, busy with putting in their food crop, were neglecting to plant the apple seeds which Johnny had given them, so he would set out again on his career of Horticulture Evan gelst"
 Johnny started four nurseries in Ohio. They were situated near the present cities of Mans field Ashland, Salem and Delaware. He is said to have established more than hundred sub nurseries in various parts of the Ohio valley,