In our December issue, I included some questions from readers that I just didn’t have the energy to answer. One of them concerned a faded business card promoting the services of Dr. W.H. Rafferty, a local chiropractor who offered “neurocalometer” readings, among other services.
Now, if I had just been born with more “gumption” I might have been able to look into the life of Dr. Rafferty on my own, but as luck would have it (all part of my clever plan, you see), one of my readers decided to do it by himself.
Hunter Johnson, a very nice fellow who knows a good deal about Memphis history, sent me a nice letter, and I’ll include a portion of it here, for your reading pleasure:
“Although I did not know W.H. Rafferty, the last name certainly rang a bell in my mind because both I and my father were patients of a Dr. J.E. Rafferty back in the 1950s and 1960s. Dr. Joe Rafferty and his wife, Ruth, were both chiropractors with an office on Cleveland at Washington. I did some checking and discovered that he was the oldest son of William Henry Rafferty and his wife, Emma Wilson Rafferty.
