Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Smith, Marvin H. December 16, 1878 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/fl/flfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Rayburn http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006128 October 6, 2015, 11:27 pm Source: Vol. II pg.86 The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923 Author: History of Florida, Past and Present MARVIN HENRY SMITH, PH. G., M. D., has gained in his exacting profession that high reputation that is the outgrowth only of ability, close application and fine personal and professional stewardship. In the City of Jacksonville he owns and conducts a modern sanitarium of the best type of equipment and service, and in his special field of practice, that pertaining to gastro-enterological disorders, his prestige has far transcended mere local limitations, as shown by the fact that in December, 1921, he was elected president of the Southern Gastro-Enterological Association, the second largest organization of its kind in the world and one whose membership is composed of the leading stomach and bowel specialists in the sixteen southern states. Prior to his election to the presidency of this representative association Doctor Smith had served three years as a secretary and treasurer and one year as its vice president. The Marvin Smith Sanitarium at Jacksonville is situated at 2225 St. Johns Avenue, the building being a modern structure of three stories and its equipment and general facilities being of the most approved order. He is known as an avidious student of medical and surgical science, and his individual research work has been broad and well directed. After leaving the high school in his native town of Umatilla, Florida, Doctor Smith took a special course in Stetson University, at De Land, this state, and next availed himself of the advantages of the great University of Chicago, in the academic or literary department of which he was a member of the class of 1900. In 1910 he graduated from the medical department of Emory University, at Atlanta, Georgia, and by a regular course in the Southern College of Pharmacy, he received from the latter institution in the following year the supplemental degree of Ph. G. In 1912 he took a postgraduate course in the New York Polyclinic Hospital and also in the New York Polyclinic Hospital and also in the New York Postgraduate School and Hospital. Prior to entering medical college he had graduated from the Dixie Business College, Atlanta, in 1909. The doctor is one of the influential and popular members of the Duval County Medical Society, and is actively identified also with the Florida State Medical Society, the Southern Medical Society and the American Medical Association. His basic Masonic affiliation is with Ionic Lodge No. 104, F. and A. M., Scottish Rite, and he is a member also of the Mystic Shrine and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His political alignment is with the democratic party, he and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and he is a member of the Florida Country Club of Jacksonville. Dr. MARVIN HENRY SMITH was born at Umatilla, Lake County, Florida, December 16, 1878, and is a son of HENRY THOMAS and ELLEN AMELIA (KAIGLER) SMITH, the former of whom was born at Columbia, South Carolina, March 4, 1840, and the latter at Eufaula, Alabama, in 1847. Of their four children the doctor was the third in order of birth; LEGRAND, who married Miss ETTA MARTIN, is in the United States internal revenue service; PAULINE is the wife of A. M. BULLOCK, deputy collector of internal revenue at Tampa, Florida; and BURDETTE, who is a representative physician and surgeon in the City of Tampa, married to Doctor MARY SHELTON, who is his able professional coadjutor. HENRY THOMAS SMITH received his early education in his native state, and was twenty years of age when he came to Florida and established his residence in Orange County, where he engaged in the buying and shipping of cattle. He was also a progressive farmer and real-estate dealer, and he became a pioneer in the growing of oranges. He owned about 1000 acres of land and devoted somewhat more than 100 acres of the same to orange culture. He was among the first to volunteer for military service in behalf of the Confederacy when the Civil war began. He enlisted as a member of the First Florida Infantry Regiment, served with the same to the close of the war, and the history of this gallant command is virtually the record of his military career, as he participated in nearly all of its engagements, both major and minor. In later years he was an honored and appreciative member of the United Confederate Veterans. His political allegiance was given to the democratic party, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. February 3, 1913, recorded the marriage of Doctor Smith and Miss FLORA A. GRIMES, who was born and reared in Georgia, and the two children of this union are CARREL W. and FLORA MARVIN. Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/fl/duval/photos/bios/smith181bs.jpg File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/fl/duval/bios/smith181bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/flfiles/ File size: 5.5 Kb