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Gen. William C. Gorgas

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On this site stood the home of Governor John Gayle, birthplace of William Crawford Gorgas, a world-famous sanitarian who served in the Panama Canal Zone from 1902 to 1914 as Surgeon General and Major General and conquered the dread plagues of yellow fever and malaria.
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