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"Johnny Appleseed"

Fort Wayne, Indiana
· [ John Chapman ]
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Johnny Appleseed was born in Massachusetts in 1776 and died near Fort Wayne in 1843. He was buried in the David Archer Cemetery. He was a pioneer apple grower of Indiana and Ohio, and his work was carried forward by the Indiana Horticultural Society and others endeavoring to continue what he had nobly commenced.
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