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His real name was John Chapman but he was known as Johnny Appleseed. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1774. Beginning in the 1790s until his death in 1845, Johnny Appleseed distributed apple seeds ,young trees, and Bibles to people as far west as Ohio. In his lifetime he covered more than 100,000 square miles (259,000 sq-kms) with apple trees. He often returned to some areas to cultivate the trees that he had planted.

Johnny Appleseed's clothing was somewhat strange. He wore a coffee sack for a shirt and a tin pan for a hat. He cooked his meals in the pan.

Johnny Appleseed was a folk hero during his lifetime and has become a legend today. Many of the orchards still existing in the eastern United States are memorial to his love of the land and for his fellow countrymen.