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Hiram Percy Maxim

Radio Pioneer and Inventor

Hiram Stevens Maxim

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• • Father of Hiram Percy Maxim — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Isaac Weston Maxim 
  • Mother:
  • Harriet Boston Stevens   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Feb 1840 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sangerville, Piscataquis, Maine 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Nov 1916 
  • Death Location:
  • Streatham, London, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Louisa Jane Brudden
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 May 1867 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Hiram Percy Maxim (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Inventor

    Sir Hiram Maxim is best known as the inventor of the automatic maching gun.

• Additional marriages for Hiram Stevens Maxim

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Haynes

• Sources for Hiram Stevens Maxim

  • ¹ Federal Census, ME, Piscataquis County, 1850, Milo, Image 5 of 23.
  • ² History of the Town of Wayne, Kennebec County, Maine: From Its Settlement to 1898, Augusta: Maine Farmer Publishing Company (1898), 181.
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915, Death certificate for spouse Jane Maxim.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Marriage record for Hiram S Maxim and Jane Brudden.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1981, Vol. 57, p. 217.
  • ⁶ The Columbia Record (Columbia, South Carolina), 24 NOV 1916, p. 1, Obituary for Sir Hiram Maxim.
  • ⁷ U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 22 OCT 1923, Application for son Hiram Percy Maxim.
  • ⁸ Motter, H. L., editor, The International Who's Who: Who's Who in the World, 1912, New York: The International Who's Who Publishing Co. (1911), 751.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Hiram Maxim", (accessed 03/13/2023).