On March 11, 1847, frontiersman John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, died in Allen County, Ind. In 1861 the constitution of the Confederacy was adopted at a convention in Montgomery, Ala.

At age 16, he wrote an article about frontiersman John Gibson for a special section The Times-Reporter published to mark the premiere of Trumpet in the Land in 1970. It was his first published ...

On March 11, 1847, frontiersman John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, died in Allen County, Ind. In 1888 the Northeast was struck by one of its worst blizzards. (At its conclusion ...