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Author: Tom Gregory (1913)

MATTIE LOU WILKERSON, D. C.

    As the world advances, more and more are thinking people realizing the
deleterious effects of drugs on the human system and seeking relief from
physical ills through other means than medicine. Among the many systems of
drugless healing in use today there is none that has more remarkable cures to
its credit than the system known as chiropractic, which as the word implies is
hand (chiro) manipulation; the cause of the disease being removed by adjustment,
nature provides the cure. Woodland is favored in having in her midst a
practitioner of this school of healing in Dr. Wilkerson, whose remarkable cures
have given her a wide reputation. Not only from Yolo county do her patients come
for treatments, but also from Sacramento, Yuba, Sutter and Solano counties, as
well as from Berkeley and Oakland.

    Dr. Wilkerson is a native of Missouri, having been born in Fayette, Howard
county, the daughter of James Hudson. The latter was a native of Scotland and
came to this country in childhood with his parents, who settled in Howard
county, Mo. There the son grew to manhood, and became an agriculturist of
considerable importance in the community which was practically his lifetime
home. In Missouri he married Miss Martha Gibbs, who was a native of that state,
and who became the mother of six children. Both of the parents passed away on
the old Missouri homestead.

    Mattie Lou Hudson was the youngest child in the parental family and was
given every advantage that her native town afforded. After completing the
studies prescribed by the common schools she attended Central College at Fayette
and was graduated with honors from that institution. It was about this time that
she became the wife of George Wilkerson, and after their marriage the young
people continued to make their home in the locality with which they had been
familiar from childhood.

    Previous to taking up her studies for the profession in which she has won
signal success, Dr. Wilkerson became a nurse and followed that profession in
Missouri until failing health compelled her to relinquish the work for which she
was so well adapted. Her medical adviser had pronounced her case incurable, but
with a determination to refute the statement, Dr. Wilkerson went to Davenport,
Iowa, for adjustments at the School of Chiropractic, and almost immediately she
responded to the adjustment and was soon able to resume her former duties as
nurse had she been so inclined. So remarkable had been her cure that she was at
once a convert to the school of chiropractic and without loss of time prepared
herself to become a practitioner, in fact, became a student of the profession
after three weeks in the aforesaid institution. Continuing her studies in the
Palmer School of Chiropractic at Davenport, on February 1, 1910, she received
the degree of Doctor of Chiropractic.

    Dr. Wilkerson's advent in Woodland, Cal., dates from March 17, 1911, and it
was just five days later that she opened an office for the practice of her
profession at No. 609 Second street. Between that time and the present she has
gathered about her a large practice, her patients coming not only from Yolo
county, but from points far distant, which is abundant evidence that her cures
have been numerous and remarkable in character. Aside from the pleasure which
Dr. Wilkerson takes in the practice of her profession is the deeper, and
therefore greater satisfaction of knowing tliat she is adding her mite to the
great transformation that is slowly but as surely making the practice of healing
by drugs a thing of the past. She has two sons, Harry and Hawkins, both
attending school in Woodland. She is a member of the Christian Church at
Woodland, fraternally is identified with the Rebekahs and the Fraternal
Brotherhood, and professionally is a member of the Universal Chiropractors'
Association.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]


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