Clinton Caldwell Boone (9 May 1872 –1939) was an African-American Baptist minister, physician, dentist, and medical missionary who served in the Congo Free State and Liberia.

Lemuel Washington Boone and Charlotte (Chavis) Boone of Hertford County, North Carolina, he played an important role in Africa as a missionary for the Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention and the American Baptist Missionary Union, now American Baptist International Ministries.

Both his namesake son and grandson, also named Clinton C. Boone, became ministers, carrying the family's religious calling into the fourth generation.

[1] His parents were known as early African-American leaders in the Baptist church, who were committed to missionary work and education.

Boone started in the state's public schools, and was encouraged by his parents to obtain higher education.

While there he also studied at the Waters Normal Institute for teacher training and the Richmond Theological Seminary, graduating with a B. D. (Bachelor of Divinity) in 1900.

While attending Virginia Union University, Boone met Eva Roberta Coles (8 January 1889-8 December 1902),[2] a student at the neighboring Hartshorn Memorial College for women.

The Boones permanently left Liberia with their young children in 1926 to return to the United States, where they settled in Richmond, Virginia.

They were sponsored jointly by the Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention and the American Baptist Missionary Union.

According to Boone's memoir, the village women deeply respected Eva; they referred to her as "Mama Bunu.

Their royal rulers had led many of the people to Catholicism in the 16th century after their own conversion under the influence of Portuguese missionaries.

When the Americans appealed to the King's private Congo authorities for help, the latter said that the Kongo people must be allowed to decide if they wanted to follow Catholicism or Protestantism.

Although their main work was to preach and spread the gospel, they often gave out simple remedies such as castor oil, quinine, laudanum, epsom salts, etc.

[9] Boone wrote that his success with the amputation, along with another, inspired him to return to the United States to study medicine.

He was assigned to the newly established Republic of Liberia, which had been founded in the early 19th century as an American colony for free blacks.

Three years old when his family returned to the US, he attended the local segregated schools of the South before earning a bachelor's degree at Houghton College in upstate New York.

He had a career in teaching in Copiague and became pastor of Union Baptist Church of Hempstead in May 1957, serving 46 years before retiring.

Boone died at age 90 and was survived by his daughter Evelyn Rane Boone-Franklin, son the Rev.