He also anticipated the large market for a product that could be easily distilled into liquor.
This man reacted to the death of shopkeeper Levi Jones by making a thirty-mile overnight trip to Clinton and Mount Vernon in order to summon help for Mansfield. This man, who entertained children by sticking needles and hot coals into his feet, often accepted a written "fipenny-bit" or old clothing as payment after appearing dressed in a coffee sack with a cooking pot on his head. This preacher for the Church of the (*) New Jerusalem expounded the teachings of Emmanuel Swedenborg to the Midwest, where he sowed tracts of forest with medicinal herbs such as pennyroyal and rattlesnake root. He also anticipated the large market for a product that could be easily distilled into liquor. For 10 points, name this man who travelled throughout the American frontier planting fruit trees.
This man reacted to the death of shopkeeper Levi Jones by making a thirty-mile overnight trip to Clinton and Mount Vernon in order to summon help for Mansfield.
Johnny Appleseed [or John Chapman]