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'''Lester Allen McCracken''', one of the first chiropractors in Washington State, along with his chiropractor wife [[Viola Faye Ritchie]]. ==Lester Allen McCracken== Lester Allen McCracken was born 2 Aug 1894 in [[Oregon]], in Salem, Marion County; son of John P Blanton and Mary Charlotte Lindgren. Lester's father died in 1899, while he was a boy, Mary remarried Levi McCracken, a widower with a son of his own, and Levi adopted Mary's two boys changing their surname to McCracken. He married [[Viola Faye Ritchie]] in Salem. Lester claimed an exemption from the WWI draft on account of being a member of the "Friends" (Quakers). He and his wife together studied chiropracty in Iowa, being there in 1920. Returning sometime before 1930 to live in [[Washington]] they became two of the first chiropractors licensed to practice in that state. They lived in the area of Montesano, [[Grays Harbor County, Washington]] for the remainders of their lives. Lester and his wife Faye had two children, both girls: [[Ethelyn Marie McCracken]] in 1922 and Beverly McCracken in 1926. Lester died in Aberdeen on 4 Dec 1979 but was at that time a resident of the nearby town of Montesano. ==John P Blanton== ==Mary Charlotte Lindgren== [[Category:Oregon]] [[Category:Washington]]
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