WILSON, EVERETT C
Chiropractor; b Kansas City Kas Oct 24, 1887; s of William W Wilson-Alice C Barker; ed Savannah Mo HS 1907; Palmer Sch Davenport, DC 1910, grad work DC 1918; Whitmore Business Coli 1908; Guard U, St Joseph .. Mo Business course 1908; m Amanda E Jordon Nov 15, 1910 Chillicothe Mo; s Dean Emerson; d Mary Alice, Gloria Darlene, Gwendolyn Palmero (Mrs George Pyle), step d Vivian Davis (Mrs Edward Driscoll); 1908-09 secy to John Brown of The John Brown U, Siloam Springs Ark; 1909-10 secy to B J Palmer of The Chiropractic Sch, Davenport; 1910-16 chiropractor, Brooklyn & Grinnell. 1919- Davenport: 1913 appeared before Montezuma dist court to defend chiropractic science, orgd against prosecution of Iowa St Med Soc; 1st chiropractor to be acquitted in Iowa; 1918- published poems reaching 18 countries of the world; June 1940 started the Loyalty Cord 3 colors Red, White & Blue-America First, If you don't like our American form of govt & appreciate our American freedom, then it's time you were getting your passport-circulated over US, sponsored by USWV; during World War in ordnance dept of US govt Rock Island Arsenal, disch 1919; orgr original Scott Co Chiropractor Assn 1925; post mbr LOOM; mbr IOOF; FOE; AF & AM; Scot Rite 32 o; Kaaba Shrine; Meth Ch; Rep; hobbies: writing poetry, geometry, philosophy, cycliona, copyrighted 1934; off & res 521 W 4th, Davenport.
This bio was extracted from the "Who's Who in Iowa," by Iowa Press Association, Des Moines: Iowa Press Association, 1940, pg. 1107.