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Johnny Appleseed

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Johnny Appleseed

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Also known as John Chapman

American nurseryman and missionary (1774–1845)

OverviewAI-generated

John Chapman was a male human born in Leominster in 1774 and died in Fort Wayne in 1845. He was a citizen of the United States who worked as a missionary, real estate developer, and botanist. Chapman spoke English and died of pneumonia due to natural causes.

The name Johnny Appleseed is also associated with a musical group from Poland. This artist has been tagged with country, hardcore, americana, metalcore, and modern rock genres. Last.fm data indicates the group has 270 listeners and a playcount of 1288.

In literary contexts, the author Johnny (Appleseed) Rossen has one work listed in the Open Library, titled The Little Red, White & Blue Book [Revolutionary Quotations by Great Americans]. Crossref records five works associated with this subject, and Vinony graph notes that the topic is referenced by 748 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
1

Top works

  • The Little Red, White & Blue Book [Revolutionary Quotations by Great Americans]

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Country
PL
Active from
2006

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
270
Total plays
1,288

Tags

countryhardcoreamericanametalcoremodern rock

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Johnny+Appleseed">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Johnny Appleseed

Key facts

Born
John Chapman , ( 1774-09-26 ) September 26, 1774, Leominster , Province of Massachusetts Bay , British America
Died
March 18, 1845 (1845-03-18) (aged 70), Fort Wayne, Indiana , U.S.
Occupations
Nurseryman conservationist missionary
Known for
Proliferation of orchards throughout the American frontier

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

John Chapman (September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845), better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds (as opposed to trees grown with grafting) to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and the Canadian province of Ontario, as well as the northern counties of West Virginia. He became an American icon while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance that he attributed to apples. He was the inspiration for many museums and historical sites such as the Johnny Appleseed Museum in Urbana, Ohio, and today is recognized as an American folk hero.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Johnny Appleseed” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.