D. D. Palmer (Wikipedia)

Tertiary biographical reference, fetched directly 31 August 2026. Used for: birth 7 March 1845 in Brown's Corners (Audley), Pickering Township, Canada West (now Ajax, Ontario); death 20 October 1913 in Los Angeles, official cause typhoid fever, with a disputed alternative account (injury at an August 1913 parade); pre-chiropractic career as beekeeper, schoolteacher, and grocer, then magnetic healer from the mid-1880s in Burlington and Davenport, Iowa; a contemporary 1894 Davenport newspaper calling him 'a crank on magnetism' and 'a quack'; the September 1895 Harvey Lillard adjustment story and Lillard's daughter's disputed account of what actually happened (a slap on the back after a joke, not a deliberate 'specific' adjustment); the 1897 founding of the Palmer School of Chiropractic (initially 'Palmer School and Cure'); the 1906 prosecution under Iowa's medical practice act for practicing medicine without a license, and B.J. Palmer's subsequent purchase of the school.