Gaillard
DAVID DU BOSE, an American soldier and engineer. Born in 1859 in South Carolina, he graduated from the military academy at West Point in 1884. As a lieutenant he superintended harbor improvements at St. Augustine and Tampa, Florida. In the Spanish American War he served as a colonel and after the war closed he was chief engineer for the Santa Clara District in Cuba, having charge of the numerous public improvements carried on under the auspices of the Cuban and American Governments. After a period as a member of the staff of the War College at Washington he returned to Cuba as an important officer in the American Army of pacification in 1907. A member of the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1908, his whole time and attention were devoted for years to the problem of building an inter-oceanic canal. Many of the difficulties incident to the building of the Panama canal were surmounted by the aid of his genius. He died in 1913. an