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LANGWORTHY, Solon Massey Jr.
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LANGWORTHY, Solon Massey Jr. (Dubuque, IA, March 23, 1868 – September 9, 1922) Langworthy began his adult life as a businessman. He was educated at BAYLESS BUSINESS COLLEGE.
However, after his marriage and the birth of his first children, Solon pursued his interest in natural medicine in Kansas and later Davenport, Iowa. Solon was one of the first fifteen students to graduate under the pioneers of chiropractic medicine, Daniel David Palmer and his son Bartlett J. Palmer. Solon Langworthy is credited as being the one to keep the new science of chiropractic alive while Daniel and Bartlett expanded in other areas of the nation.
Langworthy dedicated his life to the chiropractic profession. He established the first systematic curriculum at his American School of Chiropractic and Nature Cure in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; passed the first chiropractic licensing act in Minnesota; published Backbone the first regular journal and textbook of the chiropractic profession, and founded the first national chiropractic association.
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Source:
"Solon Massey Langworthy, Jr." Linwood Legacies. Online: http://www.linwoodlegacies.org/the-solon-massey-langworthy-family.html
