Dr. Frank William Marlow, son of William Marlow, a banker, and Bertha Searle, his wife, was born in Abington, Berkshire, England, July 2, 1858, and received a private school education at Wantage in his native country. Evincing an inclination for professional life he entered St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London in 1876. As a student he was clinical clerk to Dr. Charles Murchison until the latter's death and later under Mr. Nettleship in the eye department. In 1880 he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and also a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London. During the next four years he held various appointments, notably clinical assistant in the Royal Bethlem Hospital, house surgeon and house physician in St. Thomas's Hospital, house surgeon in the Victoria Hospital for children at Chelsea, temporary resident medical
officer at the Queen Square Hospital for Paralyzed and Epileptic, and finally ophthalmic assistant at St. Thomas's Hospital and clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, to Mr. Nettleship for a period of eighteen months.

After a short interval, which was partly filled by acting as house surgeon in the Moorfields Hospital, Dr. Marlow came in September, 1884, to America and settled in Syracuse, where he has since resided. For a time he followed his profession both as an oculist and aurist, but since 1891 has devoted his attention wholly to ophthalmic work. In June, 1885, he obtained, by examination, the degree of M.D., from the Medical College of Syracuse University, and in the following year was made instructor in Ophthalmology and Otology in that institution. In 1888 he received the professionship in those branches, which he still holds. He has also served as librarian of the medical department for several years. He is ophthalmologist to the House of the Good Shepherd, Woman's and Children's Hospital, Syracuse Free Dispensary, State Institution for Feeble Minded, and Onondaga County Orphan Asylum, a member of the American Ophthalmological Society, the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the New York State and Onondaga County Medical Societies, and a charter member of the Syracuse Academy of Medicine. Dr. Marlow has contributed occasional technical articles to medical journals at home and abroad, on subjects relating to ophthalmology.

September 24, 1889, Dr. Marlow was married to Miss Laura Bisset Mills, daughter of Frederick J. Mills, of San Francisco, formerly of Brandeston Hall, Suffolk, England. They have three children: Searle Bisset, John Mills, and Juliet. Source: Bruce, Dwight H. (Ed.), Onondaga's Centennial. Boston History Co., 1896, Vol. II, Biographical, pp. 29-30.