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{{short description|American physician}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Marion L. Bugbee
| image              = Marion Louise Bugbee.png
| alt                = A middle-aged white woman with greying hair swept back from her face
| caption            = Marion L. Bugbee, from a 1919 publication
| other_names        =
| birth_name         =
| birth_date         = September 2, 1871
| birth_place        = Hartford, Vermont
| death_date         = February 3, 1950 (aged 78)
| death_place        = Brattleboro Retreat, [[White River Junction, Vermont]]
| occupation         = Physician
}}
'''Marion Louise (or Lewis)'''<ref>{{Cite news |date=1950-02-09 |title=Dr. Marion L. Bugbee |pages=1 |work=The Landmark |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122096211/dr-marion-l-bugbee/ |access-date=2023-04-01 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> '''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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1950-02-07 |title=Dr. Marion Bugbee |pages=9 |work=Rutland Daily Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122091654/dr-marion-bugbee/ |access-date=2023-04-01 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1914-11-06 |title=White River Junction |pages=9 |work=The Burlington Free Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122096360/white-river-junction/ |access-date=2023-04-01 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Her father was a wheelwright.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=1950-02-07 |title=Dr. Marion Bugbee; Native of Hartford Dies at Brattleboro Retreat, Aged 79 |pages=7 |work=The Barre Daily Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122090955/dr-marion-bugbee-native-of-hartford/ |access-date=2023-04-01 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She attended Tilden Seminary and earned her medical degree from the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary in 1897.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last1=Metcalf |first1=Henry Harrison |url=http://archive.org/details/onethousandnewha00metciala |title=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 |last2=Abbott |first2=Frances Matilda |date=1919 |publisher=Concord, N.H. : The Rumford printing company |others=University of California Libraries |pages=83, 85}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=May–June 1915 |title=Dr. Marion L. Bugbee |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IclYAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Marion%20L.%20Bugbee%22&pg=PA211 |journal=The Granite Monthly |volume=47 |issue=5–6 |pages=211, 213}}</ref>
== Career ==
[[File:American_Red_Cross_-_Groups_-_Left_to_right-_Drs._Bradley;_Bugbee;_Hollinghead._Dr._Frances_Sage_Bradley,_formerly_Federal_Children's_Bureau,_Washington,_D.C.;_Dr._Bugbee,_head_of_W_-_DPLA_-_5fdcdbcd3d43e69a307b5c2fe6633a81.jpg|thumb|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 [[Anesthesiology|anesthetist]] and pediatrician by specialties,<ref>{{Cite journal |date=November 1918 |title=List of Anaesthetists Qualified to Serve |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jhk2AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Marion+Bugbee%22+doctor&pg=PA234 |journal=The Woman's Medical Journal |volume=28 |issue=11 |pages=234}}</ref> She succeeded Julia Wallace-Russell as physician in charge at the New Hampshire Memorial Hospital for Women and Children,<ref>{{Cite journal |date=May–June 1915 |title=The New Hampshire Memorial Hospital for Women and Children |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F1sSAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Marion+L.+Bugbee%22&pg=PA224 |journal=Granite State Monthly |volume=47 |issue=5–6 |pages=225}}</ref> a post she held from 1909 to 1931.<ref name=":1" /> She took a leave from her hospital duties to go to France with the [[American Red Cross]] during [[World War I]].<ref>{{Cite journal |date=March 1919 |title=New Hampshire War Workers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mstYAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Marion%20L.%20Bugbee%22&pg=RA2-PA91 |journal=Granite Monthly |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=91}}</ref> She practiced in [[White River Junction, Vermont]] from 1931 until health issues including a hip fracture led to her retirement in the mid-1940s.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1946-10-03 |title=Hartford |pages=6 |work=The Landmark |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122097001/hartford/ |access-date=2023-04-01 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
Bugbee was an active clubwoman,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1940-01-25 |title=Hartford Woman's Club Studies Current Events |pages=10 |work=Rutland Daily Herald |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122099492/hartford-womans-club-studies-current/ |access-date=2023-04-01 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1C0DAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Marion%20L.%20Bugbee%22&pg=PA149 |title=Official Register and Directory of the Women's Clubs in America |date=1915 |publisher=Helen M. Winslow |pages=149 |language=en}}</ref> and was a councillor of the [[American Medical Women's Association|American Medical Women's National Association]].<ref>{{Cite journal |date=July 1927 |title=Councillors |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V_ovAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Marion+L.+Bugbee%22&pg=RA2-PA2 |journal=Women in Medicine: Quarterly Bulletin of the American Medical Women's National Association |pages=2}}</ref> She was also involved in the Concord Equal Suffrage League.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Morrison |first=Nyleen |date=1969-04-29 |title=Art of 'Concrete' Poetry |pages=4 |work=Concord Monitor |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122097345/art-of-concrete-poetrynyleen-morrison/ |access-date=2023-04-01 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
== Publications ==
* "Sequence of [[Diphtheria]] Cases" (1904)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bugbee |first=Marion L. |date=August 20, 1904 |title=Sequence of Diphtheria Cases |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sl9QAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Marion%20L.%20Bugbee%22&pg=PA318 |journal=American Medicine |volume=8 |pages=318}}</ref>
* "Acute Infectious [[Jaundice]]: A Report of Three Cases" (1908)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bugbee |first=Marion L. |date=1908 |title=Acute Infectious Jaundice: A Report of Three Cases |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gMwyAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Marion+L.+Bugbee%22&pg=PA178 |journal=Transactions of the New Hampshire Medical Society |volume=117 |pages=178–182}}</ref>
== Personal life ==
Bugbee lived for more than two decades with Mary Elizabeth Silver (1863–1960), who was a nurse.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1960-10-18 |title=Mary E. Silver Dies at Age 97 |pages=5 |work=Hartford Courant |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122090417/mary-e-silver-dies-at-age-97/ |access-date=2023-04-01 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Silver was mentioned in Bugbee's obituary as a survivor, "her constant companion for many years, both in Concord and White River".<ref name=":0" /> Bugbee died at [[Brattleboro Retreat]] in White River Junction, Vermont in 1950, at the age of 78.<ref name=":0" />
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