ROBERTS 



HUGO ROBERTS 



Doctor; soldier; scientist; 

 administrator. 



Hugo Roberts was born in Trinidad on 

 the twentieth of July, 1868. He received 

 his early education in Madrid but later 

 came to Havana where he completed the 

 studies for the Bachelor's degree in the 

 Institute and, proceeding to the Univer- 

 sity, obtained the degree of Doctor of 

 Medicine in 1891. 



He was occupied in the practice of his 

 profession and as Medical Advisor of the 

 Compania Transatlantica Espanola until 

 the year 1895 when, on the outbreak of the 

 War of Independence, he threw himself 

 into the struggle and joined the forces of 

 General Antonio Maceo under whom he 

 served and who made him Surgeon at his 

 Headquarters. When Generals Gomez and 

 Maceo organized the column of invasion in 



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