Marion L. Bugbee
Marion L. Bugbee | |
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Marion L. Bugbee, from a 1919 publication | |
| Born | September 2, 1871 Hartford, Vermont |
| Died | February 3, 1950 (aged 78) Brattleboro Retreat, White River Junction, Vermont |
| Occupation | Physician |
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
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
- "Sequence of Diphtheria Cases" (1904)[15]
- "Acute Infectious Jaundice: A Report of Three Cases" (1908)[16]
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 Brattleboro, Vermont in 1950, at the age of 78.[4]
References
- ^ "Dr. Marion L. Bugbee". The Landmark. 1950-02-09. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Dr. Marion Bugbee". Rutland Daily Herald. 1950-02-07. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "White River Junction". The Burlington Free Press. 1914-11-06. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "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.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ "Dr. Marion L. Bugbee". The Granite Monthly. 47 (5–6): 211, 213. May–June 1915.
- ^ "List of Anaesthetists Qualified to Serve". The Woman's Medical Journal. 28 (11): 234. November 1918.
- ^ "The New Hampshire Memorial Hospital for Women and Children". Granite State Monthly. 47 (5–6): 225. May–June 1915.
- ^ "New Hampshire War Workers". Granite Monthly. 51 (3): 91. March 1919.
- ^ "Hartford". The Landmark. 1946-10-03. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Hartford Woman's Club Studies Current Events". Rutland Daily Herald. 1940-01-25. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Official Register and Directory of the Women's Clubs in America. Helen M. Winslow. 1915. p. 149.
- ^ "Councillors". Women in Medicine: Quarterly Bulletin of the American Medical Women's National Association: 2. July 1927.
- ^ Morrison, Nyleen (1969-04-29). "Art of 'Concrete' Poetry". Concord Monitor. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Bugbee, Marion L. (August 20, 1904). "Sequence of Diphtheria Cases". American Medicine. 8: 318.
- ^ Bugbee, Marion L. (1908). "Acute Infectious Jaundice: A Report of Three Cases". Transactions of the New Hampshire Medical Society. 117: 178–182.
- ^ "Mary E. Silver Dies at Age 97". Hartford Courant. 1960-10-18. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-04-01 – via Newspapers.com.