Thornton A. Jenkins
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Thornton A. Jenkins was an officer in the United States Navy, who served during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. He later served as chief of the Bureau of Navigation and as preside
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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
Thornton A. Jenkins
…Two destroyers of the United States Navy have been named USS Jenkins in his honor. His grandson, Thornton Jenkins Hains (son of MG Peter Conover Hains), a novelist and murder suspect Father-in-law of Florence Foster Jenkins…
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