Callen, Maude (1899–1990)
Callen, Maude (1899–1990)
African-American nurse-midwife. Name variations: Maude Evelyn Callen. Born May 8, 1899; orphaned at age 7 and raised by an uncle in Quincy, Florida; died Jan 22, 1990; attended Florida A&M College, Georgia Infirmary in Savannah, Tuskegee Institute, and South Carolina Division of Maternal and Child Health (late 1930s); children: 1.
Worked among rural poor in South Carolina; served as Episcopal missionary nurse in rural Pineville, SC; provided nutrition and primary care for residents of Berkeley County (SC); trained midwives and delivered more than 1,000 babies; appointed public health nurse for Berkeley County Health Department (1936) and opened county's 1st venereal disease and prenatal clinics. Inducted into South Carolina Hall of Fame (1990).