John Chapman, born in Leominster, Massachusetts, in 1774, became known for traveling by canoe in the late 1780s to plant apple orchards in the new territories of the Midwest. The trees were intended to provide for settlers and pioneers traveling westward during the expansion era, with each orchard offering a tree or two for farmers to take home and plant, paying if they could. He held two inseparable passions, religion and nature. The last known living apple tree planted by his hand grows on a farm in Ohio, where cuttings were taken to produce an authentic Johnny Appleseed tree planted on May 1, 2002, in memory of E.E. (Cap) and Josie Hamilton Hutchinson by their children and spouses.