Marion L. Bugbee

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]

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]

• "Sequence of Diphtheria Cases" (1904)^[15]
• "Acute Infectious Jaundice: A Report of Three Cases" (1908)^[16]

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]