Like the story of Palmer College, the story of the King family is one of continuity and change, conviction and perseverance. It’s a story of how the power of chiropractic has flourished and spread to touch an ever- growing number of lives.
THE STORY BEGINS with James Nicolas King, D.C., a 1921 graduate of Palmer. Born on March 24, 1889, in rural northern Kentucky not far from the Ohio River, he spent his adolescence suffering from chronic digestive disorders. On Good Friday in 1915, he made his way to the Catholic church at the top of Cincinnati’s Mount Adams and appealed to God for better health. Weeks later, a friend referred him to a man in the city “who worked on people’s backs and made them well.” “I had never heard anything so logical, so sensible and as simple as the chiropractic philosophy,” Dr. James later wrote of his experience with the doctor, a Palmer graduate who not only resolved the young man’s physical ailments but also introduced him to the principles of chiropractic. Despite the profound turnaround in his health, when
RUBBING ELBOWS WITH THE DEVELOPER
Dr. James King, Virginia King and young Dr. Joe and Dr. Bill pose with B.J. Palmer.
James announced his decision to become a chiropractor himself, his mother’s response was less than encouraging: “Are you out of your mind?” “I don’t think so,” he answered. At Palmer, James faced a daunting curriculum. “If I succeed in getting a diploma from this place, the whole country will shut down and celebrate,” he recalled thinking as he set about memorizing “the origin, insertion, blood supply, nerve supply and action of 682 muscles.”
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