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Johnny Appleseed
born 1774
Leominster, Massachusetts
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
John Chapman was born in Leominster and became a genuine article rather than a tall tale, a barefoot Swedenborgian nurseryman who planted apple seedlings across Ohio and Indiana ahead of settlement and sold them. The apples were mostly for cider, which is the part the schoolbooks leave out.
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