GET NEW LIGHT ON JOHNNY APPLESEED Ohio Horticulturist Unearth Paper Written by Washington County Farmer New light on the life and character of Johnny APPLESEED, the pioneer zealot who went west with the old frontier, planting apple trees in the wilderness, is furnished by a recently discovered manuscript, written by a Washington county farmer who intimately knew Johnny. The paper is published for the first time in the 1922 annual of the Ohio State Horticultural Society. N. W. GLINES, extension specializing in horticulture at the Ohio State university, found the manuscript among the effects of his grandfather, W. M. GLINES, who was born at Marietta in 1806 and died there in 1887. A neighbor of Johnny APPLESEED'S whose real name was John CHAPMAN, Mr. GLINES recounts how the CHAPMAN family came to Marietta in 1798, and how Johnny, gathering seed from the cider mills, there planted his first nurseries in the wilderness. There, too, his father died, and Johnny and his brothers made a rough coffin and buried him. Then, Mr. GLINES writes, Johnny went to Delaware; thence to Sandusky; and thence to Mansfield. At all of these points in Ohio, he planted nurseries and tended them. He was in Mansfield as late at 1819, when he was 51 years old. After that he passed west into Indiana, making his last visit to his Marietta home in October, 1842. Mr. GLINES describes this visit completely and gives a vivid picture of the quaint, lovable old fellow, with his motley clothes, his in-kettle hat, his gentleness, and his love of all living creatures. Mansfield News (Mansfield, Ohio) November 6, 1922 pg. 2 Col. 1 Transcribed by Debbie (Noland) Nitsche Diamonddeb@comcast.net Surnames have been captilized for easy identification January 2004