Dr. Marvin M. Scarbrough, whose high professional standing is indicated in the fact that from 1913 until 1917 he was annually elected secretary of the Connecticut State Medical Association, received thorough and comprehensive training for his professional activities and since 1910 has successfully practiced in New Haven. His life record reverses the usual order, for he did not follow the star of empire westward but left the Pacific coast to become a resident of the east.

He was born in Creswell, Oregon, September 10, 1878, a son of Lemuel Duncan and Emma (Redford) Scarbrough. The father was a native of Alabama and when a young man moved westward to Oregon. In the meantime he had entered the University of Tennesee and it was subsequent to his graduation that he went to the northwest. He settled first in Creswell, Oregon, where he later became a well known medical practitioner, winning prominence as a physician and surgeon of that place. He married Emma Redford, who was born in Oregon. Her father was one of the early gold seekers in California, making his way to that state in 1852, while later he became a resident of Oregon. His daughter, Mrs. Scarbrough, passed away in early womanhood, leaving four children, all of whom have departed this life with the exception of Dr. Scarbrough of this review.

In early boyhood Marvin M. Scarbrough became a pupil in the schools of Creswell, Oregon. He next became a student in the University of Oregon, where he pursued his literary course and won his Bachelor of Arts degree as a member of the class of 1902. He afterward did post graduate work in the department of biology of the Oregon University and acted as instructor. He came to New England for the purpose of augmenting his general knowledge and of taking up the study of medicine and entered Yale, where he pursued a two years' course, winning the Master of Arts degree in 1905. He then continued as a medical student at Yale and gained his professional degree in 1907. He has practiced continuously in New Haven since 1908 and since 1910 has been medical examiner for the town of New Haven. From 1908 until 1913 he was instructor in pharmacology and from 1912 to the present has been instructor in therapeutics in Yale. He was clinical assistant in surgery from 1912 to 1916. He served an interneship in the New Haven Hospital in 1907 and 1908 and then began the private practice of applied medicine. His recognized ability was attested by his election to the secretaryship of the State Medical Society in 1913 and by his reelection until 1917. He was also the secretary of the Yale Medical Alumni Association, a position which he filled for four years. He belongs as well to the New Haven, the New Haven County, the Connecticut State and the American Medical Associations and he is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He belongs to the Sigma XI and the DeltaEI Chapter of Nu Sigma Nu. He is now pathologist of Grace Hospital and there is continuous demand made upon his professsional service, so that he has little leisure time.

On the 6th of September, 1913, Dr. Scarbrough was married to Miss Mabel G. Sherwood, of Bridgeport, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Sherwood. Dr. and Mrs. Scarbrough have one child, Marvin McRae, Jr., who was born June 25 1914, in New Haven.

That the doctor is not unappreciative of the social amenities of life is indicated in his membership in the Graduates Club and in the Lawn Club. He ranks as one of the leading physicians of New Haven and stands very high in public regard.