Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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DR. G. PARKER TUBBS
 
            Prominent among those distinguished representatives of the 
chiropractic profession in California who are noted for their progressiveness 
and their successful application of the latest methods in chiropractic science, 
may well be numbered Dr. G. Parker Tubbs, the pioneer chiropractic physician in 
this part of the State, with offices in the Peri Block, on D Street, Marysville. 
 He was born at Rapids City, Ill., on September 27, 1880, and there attended the 
public school.  In 1898, or when he was eighteen years of age, not being old 
enough to enlist in the Spanish-American War, and yet feeling called upon to do 
something in behalf of his country, he went to work in the Rock Island Arsenal.  
Coming of a family of physicians, in which his uncle and three cousins had 
distinguished themselves as doctors of medicine, he naturally leaned toward the 
same field of professional endeavor; and so we find him pursuing medical courses 
for two years.  Abandoning his studies for a time, however, he became 
superintendent of Turner Moving and Storage Company in Denver, and afterwards he 
took up the study of electricity with the Utah Electric Light and Railroad 
Company at Salt Lake City.  Again turning aside from his studies, he owned and 
operated a moving picture theater, first in Salt Lake City and then in Ogden and 
Ellensburg, and later in Seattle; and it was while thus engaged that an accident 
befell him that turned the entire trend of his life.  He was taken seriously 
sick in Seattle and his case was given up by the regular medical practitioners.  
In urgent need, he turned to chiropractic and was cured by its newer and more 
advanced methods.  He then took up the study of chiropractic.  In 1919, he 
entered the Palmer School of Chiropractic at Davenport, Iowa, from which he 
graduated with honors as a member of the class of 1920.  He had been a classmate 
of Dr. Palmer in the grammar school at Davenport, Iowa, in his boyhood days; and 
in later years Dr. Palmer offered him free tuition, but he refused the kind 
offer.
            In 1920, Dr. Tubbs opened his own office in Marysville, having been 
the first to pass the required examinations and secure a license to practice in 
California north of Sacramento.  He has full modern equipment in his adjusting 
room, including the latest X-ray machine, to which he has added a number of 
improvements, now in universal use in the best-appointed offices, so that his 
machine takes the clearest and best of pictures.  He has grown in popularity 
through his successful work, and it is evident that, so far as Marysville is 
concerned, chiropractic has come to stay.
            In Seattle, Dr. Tubbs was married to Miss Edna M. Doble, a native of 
Salt Lake City; and one son, named Billy, has blessed the fortunate union.  He 
belongs to Seattle Lodge, No. 92, of the Elks, and to the Marysville Lions Club; 
and he is also a Knight of Pythias.  He is a member of California State 
Chiropractic Society and the Universal Chiropractors Association.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1103