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Johnny Appleseed was the nickname of John Chapman, an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as the northern counties of present-day West Virginia. He was born on September 26, 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts, and became an American legend while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples.

Johnny Appleseed traveled across the American frontier planting nurseries. He would plant nurseries, fence them in with brushwood to protect from livestock, then leave them in the care of a neighbor who would sell trees on shares. He would return every year or two to tend the nursery. His apples were more likely used for cider, a common beverage of the time, rather than eating.

After his death on March 18, 1845, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Johnny Appleseed became a symbol of the American frontier and conservation.