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Which future nursing leader did Samuel Gridley Howe meet while touring European institutions?
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Samuel Gridley Howe
Samuel Gridley Howe
While touring European charitable institutions and schools during his honeymoon in 1843, Samuel Gridley Howe met Florence Nightingale. Nightingale later credited Howe as the first person to urge her to enter the nursing profession.1