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Edna Merle Kelley Mann

Birth	:	12 Apr 1887 Vinton, Benton County, Iowa, USA
Death	:	12 Oct 1960 Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa, USA
Burial	:	Pyes Pa Memorial Park, Tauranga, Tauranga City, New Zealand
Coordinate	:	-37.7689800, 176.1162770
Description	:	married December 12, 1921 at Winnipeg, Manitoba. After his death in Ontario, she returned to the United States. - Contributor: Steve Johnston - father: Henry B. Kelley mother: Emma Hibbard spouse: J Fletcher Mann Dr. Edna Merle Kelley, a successful representative of the comparatively new school of naprapathy, controlling a large and growing practice in Waverly, was born in Vinton, Iowa, a daughter of Henry Beecher and Emma (Hibbard) Kelley, the former born at Rochester, New York, December 11, 1844, and the latter at Marengo, Illinois, August 4, 1854. After graduating from... Read More	married December 12, 1921 at Winnipeg, Manitoba. After his death in Ontario, she returned to the United States. - Contributor: Steve Johnston - father: Henry B. Kelley mother: Emma Hibbard spouse: J Fletcher Mann Dr. Edna Merle Kelley, a successful representative of the comparatively new school of naprapathy, controlling a large and growing practice in Waverly, was born in Vinton, Iowa, a daughter of Henry Beecher and Emma (Hibbard) Kelley, the former born at Rochester, New York, December 11, 1844, and the latter at Marengo, Illinois, August 4, 1854. After graduating from the high school with the class of 1907, Dr. Edna Merle Kelley began the study of naprapathy in September, 1908, in Chicago, Illinois, and completed the required course in 1910. She afterward took the Illinois state board examination, obtaining a license to practice, and in partnership with another woman naprapathic physician opened office on Jackson boulevard in Chicago, where she remained for nearly a year. During this time she matriculated at a night medical school but was not permitted to finish because of the illness of a sister. She was called to Waverly on that account and has since made her home here, engaging in the practice of her profession. She is now fitting out an office in the new Schlutsmeyer building, has another in the Tremont hotel in Clarksville and uses a portion of her mother's residence as a sanitarium. She enjoys a large practice, for a number of important cures stand to her credit and her ability is widely recognized. She has had special success in the treatment of different kinds of paralysis, including infantile paralysis, hay fever, asthma and all nervous disorders and has also accomplished important work in organic disease, saving a number from the surgeon's knife. The underlying philospophy of naprapathy, which Dr. Kelley practices, is founded upon the fact that the nerves of the body control all functions. It is utterly impossible for any organ to functionate at all excepting under the stimulus of some nerve higher in command. By the same rule it follows that any organ will functionate well or ill in exact relation to the amount and intensity of nerve force transmitted to it. Naprapathy, therefore, in treating the nerves, treats the actual cause of disease, while other methods treat symptoms only. Dr. Kelley is a woman of high professional advancement of the naprapathic school, being numbered among its most important representatives in the middle west. In this connection it will be of interest to many of our readers to present an article on the history of naprapathy, for which we are indebted to Dr. Kelley and which follows. The name Naprapathy means "to correct disease." The word comes from the Bohemian and Greek and has not yet found its way into the dictionaries. The origin of Naprapathy is interesting. It is traceable to two valuable discoveries: One, by a noted English surgeon, of the Royal College of surgeons; the other, made by the Bohemians of Europe. Dr. Edward Luson, one of London's greatest anatomists, found that a shortening of the connective tissue ligaments that connect the vertebrae of the spine to each other, by drawing the bones too close together, caused a decrease in the size of the spinal openings or foramina through which the nerves pass from the spinal cord to all parts of the body. This caused a pressure upon the nerves just as they left the spine. Consequently these nerves became diseased and organs supplied by them were also diseased. Being fully convinced that this was the way in which disease was caused Dr. Luson was still at a problem as to a way or means by which he could thus correct this nerve impingement. After much thought Dr. Luson then invented a machine into which he fastened his patient and suspended him from the ceiling. This he called a stretching machine for the purpose of lengthening the "tightened spines," which he felt to be the cause of disease. This was very effective in a number of cases and cured many diseases. Yet the more Dr. Luson worked the more fully he realized that this was not specific nor local enough; that the whole spine was put on a stretch but the particular point which he wanted to effect was not effected sufficiently. Being a surgeon, he knew he dared not use the knife to remove this now generally recognized cause of disease. It was then that he wrote his book called Spinal Debility upon the subject advancing his "theory of disease" to the medical profession. Because he had dared to depart from the old established theories and beliefs in regard to the laws governing the medical progession and having made this first bold departure in thought from his fellowmen, his Fellowship in the Royal College of England was taken from him and his books were suppressed. Only two of his books are now extant. About this time among the peasantry of Bohemia was discovered a means by which the ligaments of the spine could be lengthened without the aid of knife or drugs, and at the same time with no pain to the patient. This adequate method was discovered more than a hundred years ago but had been kept secret from the medical profession because of the fear on the part of the peasantry of being punished by that august body. For in a number of instances they had been arrested and thrown into prison for no greater offence than that of curing people. So this method of treatment or "Napravit" as they called it was kept secret among a few and handed down as an "Heirloom" in certain families from generation to generation until it was brought over to America. Here it was combined with research work and a thorough study of the human body until a well rounded science of treating and curing many human ailments has evolved. Early in the fall of 1908 the college - the only college in the world where Naprapathy may be learned - was moved to Chicago where it could secure the best of clinical advantages for its students. Naprapathy which is revolutionizing the cause and cure of disease owes the origin of its scientific basis to Dr. Oakley Smith of Chicago - "The father of Naprapathy." He is called this because of the many years of patient sacrifice spent upon this subject, working with his whole heart and soul upon it. Realizing that this is an age of research in science and all branches that tend to throw light upon previously unenlightened subjects, the naprapaths have made use of this fact and have taken advantage of the opportunities of the age in which they live to further advance their science. Naprapathy is surely the greatest of healing arts still in its infancy for to have cured a disease which heretofore has been incurable is nothing short of miraculous. An investigation of this science leads one to the conviction that Naprapathy is the key by which disease is being unlocked from the chest of human ailments. If this future were to be measured by the good it has already accomplished we would predict for it an indefinite extension. The field of its possibilities is unlimited. [History of Bremer County, Iowa Vol. II 1914]

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Where is Edna Merle Kelley Mann's memorial?
Edna Merle Kelley Mann's memorial is located at: Pyes Pa Memorial Park, Tauranga, Tauranga City, New Zealand.
When did Edna Merle Kelley Mann death?
Edna Merle Kelley Mann death on 12 Oct 1960 in Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Edna Merle Kelley Mann's memorial?
Latitude: -37.7689800
Longitude: 176.1162770

Family Members:

Parent

Henry Beecher Kelley

(1844 - 1903)

Emma Victoria Hibbard Kelley

(1854 - 1936)

Spouse

Sergeant Major John Fletcher Mann

(1887 - 1943)

Siblings

(unknow - unknow)

Mary Marguerite Kelley Carpenter

(1892 - 1952)

Rachel Louise Kelley

(1892 - 1984)

Ruth Caroline Kelley Perrow

(1897 - 1978)

Carlos M. Kelley

(1869 - 1916)

Milo Freeman Kelley

(1881 - 1946)

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1. Pyes Pa Memorial Park
Tauranga, Tauranga City, New Zealand
Coordinate: -37.7689800, 176.1162770

2. Hairini
Hairini, Tauranga City, New Zealand
Coordinate: -37.7241530, 176.1656207

3. Maungatapu (Waitaia) Māori Cemetery
Tauranga, Tauranga City, New Zealand
Coordinate: -37.7217300, 176.1708000

4. Catholic Cemetery
Tauranga, Tauranga City, New Zealand
Coordinate: -37.7111740, 176.1552620

5. Presbyterian Cemetery
Tauranga, Tauranga City, New Zealand
Coordinate: -37.7099350, 176.1536910

6. Anglican Cemetery
Tauranga, Tauranga City, New Zealand
Coordinate: -37.7111520, 176.1575680

7. Old Cemetery Methodist Reserve
Tauranga, Tauranga City, New Zealand
Coordinate: -37.7088290, 176.1533750

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Coordinate: -37.7095940, 176.1557600

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Coordinate: -37.6966650, 176.1840190

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Coordinate: -37.7133500, 176.2162900

11. Okahu Urupa
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Coordinate: -37.6891560, 176.1866182

12. Ngapeke Asher Family Cemetery
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Coordinate: -37.7121560, 176.2225240

13. Mission Cemetery
Tauranga, Tauranga City, New Zealand
Coordinate: -37.6749040, 176.1706930

14. Otumoko Urupa
Matapihi, Tauranga City, New Zealand
Coordinate: -37.6857230, 176.2064760

15. Matapihi Māori Cemetery
Matapihi, Tauranga City, New Zealand
Coordinate: -37.6772600, 176.2048900

16. Mangatawa Marae Urupa
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Coordinate: -37.6996840, 176.2507010

17. Te Pirau Māori Cemetery
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Coordinate: -37.6362200, 176.1230700

18. Kutaroa Urupā
Tauranga City, New Zealand
Coordinate: -37.6186690, 176.0719430

19. Te Puke Cemetery
Te Puke, Western Bay of Plenty District, New Zealand
Coordinate: -37.8054430, 176.3078800

20. St. Joseph's Church Urupa
Tauranga, Tauranga City, New Zealand
Coordinate: -37.6077515, 176.0759161

21. Old Te Puke Cemetery
Te Puke, Western Bay of Plenty District, New Zealand
Coordinate: -37.7884910, 176.3354700

22. Te Kahika Māori Cemetery
Te Puke, Western Bay of Plenty District, New Zealand
Coordinate: -37.7884600, 176.3445600

23. Okauia Māori Cemetery
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24. Kaimai Flight 441 Air Crash Memorial
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