Marion L. Bugbee
A middle-aged white woman with greying hair swept back from her face
Marion L. Bugbee, from a 1919 publication
BornSeptember 2, 1871
Hartford, Vermont
DiedFebruary 3, 1950 (aged 78)
Brattleboro Retreat, White River Junction, Vermont
OccupationPhysician

Marion Louise (or Lewis)[1] Bugbee (September 2, 1871 – February 3, 1950) was an American physician and suffragist.

Early life and education

Bugbee was born in Hartford, Vermont, a daughter of Jonathan Bugbee and Ellen Adeline Lewis Bugbee.[2][3] Her father was a wheelwright.[4] She attended Tilden Seminary and earned her medical degree from the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary in 1897.[5][6]

Career

American Red Cross medical personnel in France during World War I, including (left to right) Frances Sage Bradley, Marion L. Bugbee, and Frances M. Hollingshead

Bugbee practiced in Hartford, Vermont from 1898 to 1909. She was an anesthetist and pediatrician by specialties,[7] She succeeded Julia Wallace-Russell as physician in charge at the New Hampshire Memorial Hospital for Women and Children,[8] a post she held from 1909 to 1931.[5] She took a leave from her hospital duties to go to France with the American Red Cross during World War I.[9] She practiced in White River Junction, Vermont from 1931 until health issues including a hip fracture led to her retirement in the mid-1940s.[10]

Bugbee was an active clubwoman,[11] and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She chaired the public health committee of the New Hampshire Federation of Women's Clubs,[12] and was a councillor of the American Medical Women's National Association.[13] She was also involved in the Concord Equal Suffrage League.[5][14]

Publications

Personal life

Bugbee lived for more than two decades with Mary Elizabeth Silver (1863–1960), who was a nurse.[17] Silver was mentioned in Bugbee's obituary as a survivor, "her constant companion for many years, both in Concord and White River".[4] Bugbee died at Brattleboro Retreat in White River Junction, Vermont in 1950, at the age of 78.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Dr. Marion L. Bugbee". The Landmark. 1950-02-09. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ "Dr. Marion Bugbee". Rutland Daily Herald. 1950-02-07. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "White River Junction". The Burlington Free Press. 1914-11-06. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. 1 2 3 "Dr. Marion Bugbee; Native of Hartford Dies at Brattleboro Retreat, Aged 79". The Barre Daily Times. 1950-02-07. p. 7. Retrieved 2023-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. 1 2 3 Metcalf, Henry Harrison; Abbott, Frances Matilda (1919). One thousand New Hampshire notables; brief biographical sketches of New Hampshire men and women, native or resident, prominent in public, professional, business, educational, fraternal or benevolent work. University of California Libraries. Concord, N.H. : The Rumford printing company. pp. 83, 85.
  6. ↑ "Dr. Marion L. Bugbee". The Granite Monthly. 47 (5–6): 211, 213. May–June 1915.
  7. ↑ "List of Anaesthetists Qualified to Serve". The Woman's Medical Journal. 28 (11): 234. November 1918.
  8. ↑ "The New Hampshire Memorial Hospital for Women and Children". Granite State Monthly. 47 (5–6): 225. May–June 1915.
  9. ↑ "New Hampshire War Workers". Granite Monthly. 51 (3): 91. March 1919.
  10. ↑ "Hartford". The Landmark. 1946-10-03. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ "Hartford Woman's Club Studies Current Events". Rutland Daily Herald. 1940-01-25. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ Official Register and Directory of the Women's Clubs in America. Helen M. Winslow. 1915. p. 149.
  13. ↑ "Councillors". Women in Medicine: Quarterly Bulletin of the American Medical Women's National Association: 2. July 1927.
  14. ↑ Morrison, Nyleen (1969-04-29). "Art of 'Concrete' Poetry". Concord Monitor. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ Bugbee, Marion L. (August 20, 1904). "Sequence of Diphtheria Cases". American Medicine. 8: 318.
  16. ↑ Bugbee, Marion L. (1908). "Acute Infectious Jaundice: A Report of Three Cases". Transactions of the New Hampshire Medical Society. 117: 178–182.
  17. ↑ "Mary E. Silver Dies at Age 97". Hartford Courant. 1960-10-18. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.
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