Florence Nightingale was born into an upper class British family in 1820 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was named after the town where she was born. The family moved back to London when Florence was a young girl. She was a Unitarian. Although her parents expected her to become a wife and a mother, in 1845 she decided to become a nurse.
San Leon, Texas. San Leon is a census-designated place (CDP) in Galveston County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,970 at the 2010 census.
The newspapers of Leon are the Decatur County Journal, published and edited by P. O. James; and the Leon Pioneer, by G. N. Udell. The former is Republican and the latter Democratic. The Pioneer has been published several years, and the Journal only a few months.