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Following the American Civil War, the United States Veterans Signal Association was formed from the original Signal Corps established under Major Albert J. Myer of the U.S. Army.
General Nelson A. Miles had been installed by the President of the United States as the first American military governor of the Island, and Francisco Porrata Doria had been elected mayor by the people of Ponce as was the custom for many decades under the old Spanish system.
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Major Myer was appointed by the first military governor of Puerto Rico, Major General Nelson A. Miles.
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A year earlier the United States had invaded the island and installed a military central government based in San Juan.
Albert J. Myer (1828–1880), surgeon and United States Army officer
It was designed by T.B. Townsend and H. E. Myer, and built in 1877 with stone, brick, and slate in the Second Empire architecture style.