BIOGRAPHIES: Benjamin H. MOYER, Cumberland, Barron County, WI

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Benjamin H. Moyer, chiropractic practioner of Cumberland, was born in
Dexter, Kan., March 9, 1889, the son of Edward T. and Eunice (Butters)
Moyer, the former of whom died in 1911 and the latter in 1920. He received
his early education in the district schools of his native place, and was
just growing into sturdy young manhood when he was stricken with infantile
paralysis. This left him a wreck of his former vigorous youth, and he went
from physician to physician to seek relief. Finally as a last resort he
called in chiropractic practitioners. Under their adjustments he was in
time restored to normal health and strength. The wonderful results
demonstrated in his own case caused him to determine to devote his life to
this branch of the healing art. Accordingly, in 1916, be went to Davenport,
Iowa, and entered the Palmer School of Chiropractic, from which he was
graduated with the degree of D. C. on Dec. 9, 1918. His illness and medical
bills had left him without funds, so the plucky youth had worked his way
through, school by waiting on tables and doing other odd jobs, thus getting
board and clothing. After finishing his course he made a short visit to
Spooner, Wis. On March 3, 1919, he landed in Cumberland a stranger and with
but few dollars in his pocket. He was, however, filled with determination,
and upheld by the confidence of the great merits of the help which he had
to offer. Accordingly, he rented rooms in the Merchants' Hotel. So
immediate was his success that in June, 1919, he found it necessary to
secure a suite of offices in the Jeffery Building where he has four large,
well-equipped rooms. He has demonstrated to the people the dignity,
importance and efficiency of the chiropractic method of treatment,
consisting of adjusting the vertabra of the spine, and has proven his worth
as a man and as a citizen.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pg. 306.