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Isabel Adams Hampton Robb (August 1860 - 15 April 1910), nurse and textbook author, helped standardize education for nursing in the United States and abroad. She played a key role in founding the forerunner of the Francis Payne Bolton School for Nursing in Cleveland. Robb was born in Welland, Ontario, Canada. She graduated from the New York Training School for Nurses at Bellevue Hospital in New York City in 1883.

After 18 months at St. Paul's House in Rome Italy, and a stint as superintendent of nurses at the Illinois Training School in Chicago (1886-89), Robb organized and was the principal of the Johns Hopkins School for Nurses in Baltimore (1889). She chaired the subsection for nursing for the 1893 World's Fair and helped form the Society of Superintendents of Training Schools (later the National League for Nursing Education).