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 legislature of the Republic of Texas authorized Leon County in 1846 from part of Robertson County, and named it in honor of MartÃ­n De LeÃ³n, the founder of Victoria, Texas. However, local tradition holds that it is named for a yellow wolf of the region commonly called the leÃ³n (lion in Spanish).