C. (Christian) Peter De Hahn was born in Russia June 3, 1893, and experienced military service in his native country as a young man before emigrating to the U.S. in 1926. At the time of his death in 1941 he was a resident of Brookline, Mass and working as a lithographic artist for a greeting card company, the Rust Craft Publishing Company! His wife was Polly de Hahn. This man actually died at the Waumbek Inn on Gregg Lake in Antrim, whether on vacation or travelling on business is unknown. How he came to be buried in Deering is unknown. His grave marker indicates he was a captain in the grenadier guards in the Russian Imperial Army. These troops were tasked in the days before communism with protecting the Russian Czar, and did so in the initial days of the 1917 Russian Revolution. However, the majority of these troops were sympathetic to the regular Russian people and soon came to join the Bolsheviks. It is interesting that de Hahn immigrated to America just nine years after the Russian Revolution Though sheer speculation, perhaps he was disillusioned with the new Bolshevik government. In either case, he left his military career behind to come to America.
