Joshua N. Haldeman

Joshua Norman Haldeman (November 25, 1902 – January 13, 1974) was an American-born Canadian -South African chiropractor, aviator, and politician. Early life and education Haldeman was born in 1902 in Pequot Lakes, Minnesota, to father John Elon Haldeman and mother Almeda Jane (Norman) Haldeman. He had a sister, also named Almeda. When he was two years old, his father was diagnosed with diabetes; in an effort to treat her husband, his mother studied at E. W. Lynch's Chiropractic School in Minneapolis and earned her D.C. on January 20, 1905. The family then moved to Saskatchewan, where she became the first recorded chiropractor in Canada. John Haldeman died in 1909 and Almeda Haldeman remarried to Heseltine Wilson; Joshua Haldeman grew up on his ranch. Haldeman attended a number of colleges and universities, including Moose Jaw College, Regina College, Winnipeg Agricultural College, and the University of Chicago. He graduated...