Peter Conover Hains
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Peter Conover Hains was a major general in the United States Army, military engineer, and veteran of the American Civil War, Spanish–American War, and the First World War. He is best known for his civ
First Lieutenant Peter C. Hains, 1862. Photo by James F. Gibson. Library of Congress.
Major General Peter C. Hains Sr., 1910s. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Major General Hains at his desk in April 1918
Peter Hains
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Peter Conover Hains Jr. was a United States Army captain convicted of killing his wife's lover. The case became a sensational murder trial in New York City in 1908. He was the son of Major General Pet
Peter Conover Hains
…Hains retired from active service in 1904, having reached the mandatory retirement age of 64. On August 15, 1908, two of his three sons, Peter C. Hains Jr. and Thornton Jenkins Hains, a well-known author of sea stories, were involved in the murder of William E. Annis at the Bayside Yacht Club, Bayside…
Hains in a 1908 newspaper
Leaving court