McClennan Banks: Hospital and Training School for Nurses: Dr. Lucy Hughes Brown

Introduction
Hospital and Training School for Nurses (Cannon Street)
McClennan-Banks Memorial Hospital (Courtenay Street)
Dr. Alonzo C. McClennan
The Hospital Herald
Dr. Lucy Hughes Brown
Anna DeCosta Banks
Dr. Thomas McFall
About the Exhibit

Lucy Brown Group — Dr. Lucy Hughes Brown can be seen at the far right in this undated photograph. Dr. Alonzo C. McClennan is seated at the far left.
Waring Historical Library, MUSC, Charleston

Dr. Lucy Hughes Brown

Lucy Manetta Hughes was born in Mebanesville, North Carolina in 1863. She graduated from Scotia Seminary in Concord, North Carolina in 1885 and married Rev. David Brown four years later. In 1894 she graduated with a degree in medicine from Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania.

After practicing medicine in Wilmington, North Carolina for two years, she and her husband moved to Charleston in 1896. She was a co-founder of the Hospital and Training School for Nurses and served as the head of the department of nursing and instructor. She retired in 1904 due to ill health and died on June 26, 1911.