1856: :
DD’s father’s store fails, and his father moves to the U.S.

09-06-1856: :
Harvey Lillard was born. Harvey would eventually become the first patient to receive a chiropractic adjustment.

1861 - 1865: :
Civil War Period

04/03/1865:
DD and brother Thomas (" TJ") leave Canada for the U.S. They left with $2.00, borrowed from friends. TJ goes to Medford, opens a publishing house. DD goes to Davenport, Ia. - Teacher and grocer.

01/1866:
DD became a schoolmaster in Muscatine County, Iowa. Taught 50 pupils from 5 y.o. to 20 y.o. during February & March 1866 in a one room schoolhouse.

1866:
Records indicate DD making $20 / month. He keeps a journal called the "Spencerian Hand" (handwriting) and published a weekly paper called the "Educator".

01/02/1867:
DD taught in Concord Township, Louisa County, Iowa. (7 month term with eighty pupils.)

03/17/1868:
DD finished teaching the term in School District Two, Jefferson Township, Louisa County, Iowa. (47 students)

12/07/1868:
DD started teaching term in District One, Port Louisa Township, Louisa County, Iowa

1869 (?):
DD taught the first school in the community of Muscatine, IA.

1871:
DD, an experienced and veteran schoolmaster, moves to New Boston, IA & takes job as school master teaching youths of the Intermediate Department in New Boston, Illinois. (Mercer County, Illinois)

NOTES ON TEACHING FROM DD PALMER’S JOURNALS, Preserved in the historical collection at Palmer College of Chiropractic: "One difficulty at a time is enough for a child . . . Be thorough. Let every lesson have an aim in view. . . Proceed from the known to the unknown . . . One idea worked by the pupil is worth ten communicated . . . We do not come to school to eat or drink or be treated . . . Use persuasion to get large boys to quit using tobacco . . . Do not sit large boys or girls near each other . . . Simplify all subjects for the young . . . Whip; giving time between strokes . . . After punishing pupils do not let them go while sulky but keep til good natured; that they may not have the sympathy of others . . . As one of the last resorts for subduing pupil, tie thumbs together and suspend . . . To cure a person of theft or anything similar; make a deep impression on the mind of the wrong; then, write out a statement of the case in the form of a confession and have them sign it; promising them you will never divulge the secret if it is the last; but vise versa." MOTTOS THAT DD LIKED: " Study first, play afterwards . . . The best physicians re Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman . . . The mill cannot grind with the water that is past . . . Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds . . . He who obeys God’s law, finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge." DD’s VIEWS ON THE TEACHER: "Wear slippers in the school room . . .Have rows of seats numbered . . . a clean floor tends to quietyness . . . Teachers ought to buy copybook papers for pupils" DD Palmer was a deeply religious man, and read his bible frequently. According to one account he frequently underlined lines and verses to such an extent the entire book was black with markings.

01/20/1871:
1 st marriage is with Abba Lord, wedding lic. # 2833, by Justice of the Peace, Arnas Pranty.

11/08/1871:
DD and his wife Buys a 10 acre farm, called "Sweet Home", from Elisha Essley and his wife. Property was in Eliza Township, several miles north of New Boston. Land had a steep hill sloping to the edge of the wet sloughs. DD’s first journal contained a grid map of part of his land, identifying plantings of peach, pear, and other fruit trees. Over 30 species of fruit bearing trees, including: Bartlett’s, Sheldon’s, Clapp’s Favorite, Beatrice, Catherine Cling, Heath Free and Heath Cling. Also many plantings on the hillside of evergreens and other trees. DD raises bees and becomes interested in bee genetics. DD has detailed notes on Beekeeping in his journal.

1873:
DD produced a seedling of Lum’s (sic) Everbearer (raspberry) and "it makes it the most delicious berry for the table, preserving or jelly. It being the firmest berry grown, makes it the best for shipping, canning or drying. In honor of our Sweet Home, with 300 stands of bees to bck the sweet, we have names the new seedling, "SWEET HOME".

1873:
Abba Lord (DD’s 1 st wife, disappears from mention in records.)

1874:
DD marries again, Louvenia Landers (eventually the mother of BJ)

1881:
bee enterprise fails. DD raised , bred, and sold raspberries and other fruits. DD is now in What Cheer, IA. His wife now Sarah. TJ is publisher of the "What Cheer Patriot"

09/10/1881:
B.J. Palmer was born.

11/20/1884:
Louvenia Palmer (BJ’s mom) died.

1885:
6 month’s after Louvenia dies, DD marries Martha A. Henning (26 y.o.)

09/03/1886:
DD first sees patient’s as a magnetic healer at the Ryan Block Building in Davenport, IA.

10/1886:
Letter to DD from brother Bart indicates that Martha is no longer in DD’s life.

11/1886:
DD remarries: Villa Amanda Thomas (39 y.o.)

1887:
DD’s yearly income was $700

1890:
DD’s yearly income was $2,507.

Late 1800’s: DD Palmer becomes an anti-vivisectionist.

09/18/1895:
D.D. Palmer gave Harvey Lillard the first ever Chiropractic adjustment. Harvey's hearing returned...and Chiropractic was born. 17 years before, while working in a cramped, stooping position, Harvey Lillard, janitor of the Ryan Building in Brady Street, Davenport, Iowa USA had felt something give way in his spine. The immediate result was not only pain...he found he had lost his hearing. He mentioned his problem to Daniel David Palmer, who had an office in the Ryan Building and was a keen student of anatomy and physiology. Daniel Palmer surmised that the spine was the highway along which ran the central nervous system. If that highway should become in need of repair and in any way restrict the constant traffic of brain impulses and orders carried by the central nervous system, other symptoms seemingly unconnected to the spinal column could result. He examined Harvey Lillard and found that one of his vertebrae was misaligned.

1898:
DD’s yearly income was $9,276.

1898:
First School of Chiropractic opened in 1898. Five of the first 15 graduates were medical doctors. It's also worth noting that half the pupils were women.

1912:
Mabel and B.J. Palmer bought the Mansion at 808 Brady St. in Davenport for $25,000 The three-story Palmer Mansion was originally built by Louis Dessaint in 1874 in the Second Empire architectural tradition. The woodwork throughout the Mansion is of solid butternut, and the foundation was constructed from two feet thick stone. Mr. and Mrs. William Peterson, owners before B.J. and Mabel Palmer, installed central heat, electricity,Italian carrara marble fireplaces and parquet floors in the early 20th century. Famous guests who have visited the Palmer Mansion include American Presidents Ronald Reagan, Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman, and entertainers Harry Houdini, Jack Dempsey and Jeanette McDonald.

1913:
Kansas was the first state to license Chiropractors.

10-20-1913:
D. D. Palmer Died at home, 8 a.m. (Monday), 420 West Vernon Avenue, Los Angeles, California. Cause of death was typhoid fever of which he had been ill for twenty-eight days.

DD PALMER DIES . . . Arrangements were handled by Pierce Brothers and Company, Undertakers, with cremation at the Los Angeles Crematory. For many years, D.D.'s ashes reposed in an urn placed for view into the plinth of his heroic-scaled bronze bust on the campus of Palmer College of Chiropractic. In the spring of 1981, the ashes were removed from the base of the statue and placed in the family crypt in the mausoleum of Oakdale Cemetery, 2501 Eastern Avenue, Davenport, Iowa.

1922:
B.J. Palmer purchased an Aeolian player pipe organ for $75,000. This pipe organ, installed in the Music Room, is one of the 1920:
B.J. added a large enclosed porch in which to display his collections. It has a series of rooms on the east and south sides of the largest in the Quad-Cities. This pipe organ was used during broadcasts on WOC radio, which was the first commercial radio station west of the Mississippi. B.J. owned and operated this station. One of the early announcers was Ronald Reagan.

1924:
B.J. had the first radio station west of the Mississippi , WOC (or, Wonders Of Chiropractic). B.J. Palmer coined the radio business term - "broadcasting." Previously,broadcasting was an agricultural term meaning to throw out seeds (ideas). One of the early announcers was Ronald Reagan

1928:
B. J. Palmer purchased WHO (With Hands Only) in Des Moines, Iowa.

09/07/1925:
Harvey Lillard, first chiropractic patient died of acute cardiac failure at his home, 3934 Lucile Street, Seattle. Harvey had spent much of his life in Seattle.

1925:
The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) was formed., and in conjunction with all the European Chiropractic Associations opened the first recognized Chiropractic College outside North America in 1965. This is the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic in Bournemouth. In 1988 it became the first complementary medicine college to offer a validated degree course in the UK. All BCA members practice under a strict code of ethics and rules by the Association.

1941:
The first standards were set up to accredit Chiropractic schools in the USA.

1944:
The GI Bill of Rights made grants available for returning veterans to study Chiropractic.

5/27/1961:
B .J. Palmer died @ 79 years old.

1965:
The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) in conjunction with all the European Chiropractic Associations opened the first recognized Chiropractic College outside North America: The Anglo-European College of Chiropractic in Bournemouth.

1972:
The McTimoney Chiropractic School was founded by John McTimoney who was trained by Mary Walker DC, a graduate of the Palmer College. He established his practice in Oxfordshire in 1951, and went on to develop the integrated whole body approach to Chiropractic treatment which is taught today at the school that bears his name. The McTimoney Chiropractic Association (MCA) governs the code of ethics and professional conduct of those practitioners trained at the McTimoney Chiropractic School in Oxford.

1972:
The US Congress voted to make Chiropractic available under Medicare.

1988:
The Anglo-European College of Chiropractic in Bournemouth became the first complementary medicine college to offer a validated degree course in the UK. All BCA members practice under a strict code of ethics and rules by the Association.

___________________ Web site Sources:

http://www.palmer.edu/Foundation/Foundation.htm

http://www.chiropractic.org.uk/history.html

http://citystar.com/plott/story.htm

http://www.aucco.org/history.html (good photos)

___________________ Book Sources:

Gielow, Vern "OLD DAD CHIRO", Copyright 1982, Fred Barge, Lacrosse, WI (Excellent Book!!)

Palmer, B. J. "HISTORY IN THE MAKING", Copyright 1957, Chiropractic Fountain Head, Davenport, IA

Revised 11-3-2007