Marvin Fisher Smith, M.D. of Hampton, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
         by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915

Page 1094

   MARVIN FISHER SMITH, M. D., the oldest practicing physician in
the town of Hampton, was born in Newbury, N. H., January 28, 1852, a
son of Moses S. and Adeline (Adams) Smith, the father being a shoemaker.
All the members of his parents' family are now deceased except himself.  He
was educated in the common schools of Hockington, N. H., and in 1869
began the study of dentistry at Manchester, N. H., where he resided two
years.  He then went to Pittsfield, where he practiced dentistry until 1882,
after which he removed to Epsom, N. H., coming from that place to Hamp-
ton, May 5, 1888.  He studied medicine at Burlington and at Dartmouth
Medical College, graduating in the class of 1882.  Dr. Smith has been physi-
cian and surgeon of the pension board for twenty years.  He has also served
as coroner of Rockingham County and was formerly medical examiner for
several insurance companies.  In politics he is a Republican and, has served
three times as congressional delegate for the town of Hampton.  Dr. Smith
was married August 18, 1878, to Miss Mary Ella Randal, a native of Pitts-
field, N. H.  He and his wife attend the Congregational church.  They are
the parents of two children-Gertrude R., born in Pittsfield, N. H., Oct. 5,
1879, and Gerald A., born in Epsom, N. H., Jan. 23, 1885.