CANIZARES 



SANTIAGO GARCIA CANIZARES 



Physician; public man. 



Santiago Garcia Canizares was born 

 on the seventh of July, 1862, in Sancti 

 Spiritus, the birthplace of his mother; his 

 father was a Spanish army officer. He 

 prepared tor the Bachelor's degree in the 

 Jesuit College of Sancti Spiritus and in 

 1878 entered the University of Havana 

 where he obtained the Licentiate in Medi- 

 cine in 1884 and the Doctorate in 1886. 



He began the practice of his profession 

 in the Isle of Pines and continued it in his 

 native city where, besides serving on the 

 Board of Education and the Board of Hos- 

 pital Patrons, he edited a periodical La 

 Igualdad. He held the position of Direc- 

 tor of Coast Sanitation until 1895 when, at 

 the outbreak of the War of Independence, 

 he joined the revolutionaries. 



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