Johnny Appleseed By: Steven Kellog

John Chapman was born on September 26th 1771 in Massachusetts. He was one of ten kids! They all picked apples and stored them for the winter. He was a very gentle man and loved nature. When he was old enough to leave home he ventured out west. He cleared a plot of land everywhere he went and planted a small apple orchid. Whenever he ran out of apple seeds he visited his old orchids and got more. He sold his apple seeds to pioneers and settled down in Ohio for a while. When Ohio became too crowded he moved to Indiana. He told his stories to children about how he lived with indians, and how he could cut trees down faster then an axman! He died in March of 1845 when he got sick for the first time. His stories still live on and people still see him today.