"), the founder of chiropractic, in What Cheer, Iowa,[2] The Palmer family of six resided in the back of a grocery store that D.D.

had settled with a new wife, he moved the family to Letts, Iowa, and he worked as a schoolteacher and a magnetic healer, developing chiropractic.

Mabel Heath Palmer had a heavy load of students and taught mostly anatomy classes.

Palmer ran his research clinics in Davenport for 16 years and eventually became convinced that upper cervical spine was the key to health.

"[3] They had an estranged relationship for a number of years when David Daniel decided to attend University of Pennsylvania and later its Wharton School of Business.

David explained that he knew that he would one day be in charge of the school, and wanted an education in business to allow him to better manage the college.

In 1922, Palmer purchased a local radio station, WOC (whose call letters were thought to stand for "World Of Chiropractic" or "Wonders of Chiropractic" but in reality these call letters were assigned by the government to the previous owner of the station, Robert Karlowa of Rock Island, Illinois).

Palmer began using the station to market chiropractic, as well as to broadcast farm, sports and weather reports.

He also published and read some of these stories in the Palmer School's newspaper and on WOC radio station.

In 1951 B. J. purchased a home on St. Armands Key in Sarasota, Florida, where he lived out his final years.

His son assumed the role of President of Palmer School of Chiropractic after his father's death.

The Palmers added on a porch addition surrounding the original house in the 1920s to help hold their extensive collection.

The book Trick or Treatment remarked "it seems more likely that his death was a direct result of injuries caused by his son."

[7] Chiropractic historian Joseph C. Keating, Jr. has described the patricide interpretation of the event as a myth and "absurd on its face" and cites an eyewitness who recalled that D.D.