Sacramento County
Biographies
DR. FRANK B.
WHIDDEN
DR. FRANK B. WHIDDEN.--Prominent among the distinguished exponents of health science according to the chiropractic school who have contributed much to advance its theories and to legalize its practice in California, is numbered Dr. Frank B. Whidden of 1139 Thirty-third Street, Sacramento. He was born at Calais, Maine, on September 16, 1872, youngest of ten children of Charles R. and Mila Frances Whidden, by whom he was christened Frank Boutelle. His father was an attorney, and became collector of customs at Eastport, Maine, a prosecuting attorney, and a member of the state of Maine legislature; and our subject thus came to enjoy the best of educational advantages, at Worcester Academy (from which he was graduated in 1889), and Brown University (where he was a member of the class of ‘93), while growing up in a stimulating home atmosphere.
Dr. Whidden early embarked in newspaper work, engaging himself with the Worcester, Mass., Telegram, later doing work as a reporter for the Boston Herald; and then he became Sunday editor of Hearst’s Boston American. He joined the editorial staff of the New York Herald, and later was on the editorial staff of the New York World. Coming out to the Northwest, he was news editor of the Seattle Times from 1910 to 1920. About that time his health failed, and he was restored by a chiropractor. As a result, he resigned his newspaper position to study chiropractic. He went to Davenport, Iowa, and was graduated from the Palmer School of Chiropractic there. On July 18, 1905, at Boston, he had married Mrs. E. Elinor Stansfield, and she had also become a graduate of the Palmer School of Chiropractic.
Dr. Whidden is now president of the Northern California Chiropractors’ Association, and is vice-president and a member of the executive committee of the State Chiropractic Society. For two years he has been editor and publisher of The California Chiropractor, a monthly publication with large, statewide circulation. He is highly progressive and eminently practical, wields a ready, convincing pen, and is the author of numerous essays on chiropractic themes. Fraternally, Dr. Whidden is a member of the B. P. O. Elks.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With
Biographical Sketches, Page 935.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
© 2007 Jeanne Taylor.