I picked this card memory of my great, great, great, great grandfather who invented by grafting the Rome Beauty Apple in Rome twp, Proctorville OH in the early 1800s. Rome Twp is located by the Ohio river. They built keel boats, shipped the apples to New Orleans to be sent back to Great Britain. They would then dismantle the boats, sell the lumber and find their way home any way they could. His name was Horatio Nelson Gillette. Also his cousin Alison Gillette. They were responsible for 70 thousand trees in Ohio.
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