Robb, Isabel Hampton
- Nancy L. Noel
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Robb, Isabel Hampton (26 August 1860–15 April 1910), nursing educator and leader, was born Isabel Adams Hampton in Welland Ontario, Canada, the daughter of Samuel Hampton, the owner of a tailoring business, and Sarah Mary Lay. Young Isabel (nicknamed “Addie”) preferred reading to almost anything and was a good student in the local public school. After graduation she taught in a rural public school, where she was very successful at controlling unruly students and getting them to work together. While teaching, she also studied with a Mr. Henderson, the headmaster of the Collegiate Institute at St. Catherines, Ontario. He tutored her in the liberal arts or perhaps mathematics. Isabel was ambitious; she felt “wound up” much of the time and confided to a sister, “If I were a man I would stop at nothing; I would be prime minister of Canada.”...
