George Washington Goethals
1858-1928
American Army Engineer
George Washington Goethals was a United States Army Engineer appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as the chief engineer of the Panama C...
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U.S. Army officer and engineer George Washington Goethals (1858-1928) succeeded in building the Panama Canal after many others had failed.On June 29, 1858, George W. Goethals was born in Brooklyn, N.Y...
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