D.D. Palmer (Mar. 7, 1845 - Oct. 20, 1913) 

The Founder - D.D. Palmer reasoned that the body had an ample supply of natural healing power transmitted through the nervous system. If a single organ was sick, it must not be receiving its normal serve supply. That led to the premise of spinal misalignment, or subluxation, and from there to a procedure for adjusting the vertebrae. D.D. performed his first adjustment in 1895, relieving on man of deafness and another person of heart trouble.