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Yoder and Yoder. This
firm consists of Dr, Samuel J. Yoder and
his wife, Dr. Delia Yoder,
well-known chiropractors of Moberly, who
ha'.'e been engaged in the
practice here since 1917. Dr. Samuel J
Yoder was born in
McLean County, Ill., Aug. 26, 1866. He is a son
of Jonathan and Catherine
(Balliman) Yoder, who now resides at Car
lock, Ill. The father is 80
years of age and the mother is 75 years old
Jonathan Yoder is a son of
Samuel Yoder, who was a native of Penn
sylvania, and a pioneer in
Ohio and Illinois.
The children born to
Jonathan and Catherine (Balliman) Yoder are
as follow: Milo F., Gibson
City, Ill.; John W., Danvers, Ill.; J. E Dan-
vers, Ill.; Judson, Danvers,
Ill.; Carey, Danvers, Ill.; Chester L.. Ver-
non, Ill.; Minnie, married
Albert Frey, Carlock. Ill.; Alice, married Fred
Spencer, Danvers, Ill.;
Eura, married Herman Sthaly, Aurora. Feb., and
Dr. Samuel j., wbo was
the second in order of birth
Dr. Samuel J. Yoder
received a good education in the public schools
of Illinois and then the
Palmer School at Davenport. Iowa, where he took
a chiropractic course.
Doctor Yoder was married to Miss Delia S. Wil
hite, a native of Woodford
County, Ill. She is a daughter of James
and Eliza J. (Sawyers)
Wilbite, both of whom are deceased: the mother
died at the age of 37 at
Summer, Ill., in 1876, and the father died in St.
Louis in March, 1918, at
the age of 30 years. They were the parents
of the following children:
Theodore S.. Decatur. Ill.: Leander C., Wich-
ita, Kan John A., Wichita,
Han., and James Edwin, OFallon, Ill. After
the death of the mother of
the above children. the father was married
again, and to that union
were born the following children: Scott Wil-
hite, a county judge at Mt.
Carmel, Ill.; Alice, married William Fulbright
St. Louis, Mo.; Emma S.,
married Bert Brown, of St. Francisville, ILL
The following children of
James C. Wilhite are deceased, Hattie S. died
at the age of ten years;
Rosander C., died in infancy; Lillie N., died at
the age of 18 years and
Laura B., died at the age of six.
Doctor Yoder and his wife
began practice in Davenport, iowa, and
in 1917 began the practice
of their profession at Moberly and since estab�
lishing themselves here
they have built up an extensive practiee. Doctor
Yoder says that
chiropractics has to its credit from 85 to 90 per cent. of
recoveries of cases, a
majority of which are of the so-called chronic na-
ture He says according to
statistics taken during the flu epidemic that
only one case out of 861
was lost; that these statistics cover the entire
United States and were
obtained from chiropractors throughout the coun
try bv Doctor E. J.
Palmer. president of the Palmer School at Davenport,
Iowa, who sent out 10,000
cards to practicing chiropractors, and the sta-
tistics was compiled from
these cards.
In connection w:th the
Palmer School at Davenport, Iowa, a free
clinic is being conducted
daily where from 1,200 to 1,500 patients are
being adjusted, and by this
method the students obtain a knowledge of
giving spinal adjustments.
Since coming to Moberly
Doctor Yoder and his wife have made many
friends and stand high in
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