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Hiram Maxim married his first wife, the English-born Jane Budden, on 11 May 1867 in Boston, Massachusetts. Their children were: Hiram Percy Maxim; Florence Maxim, who married George Albert Cutter, and Adelaide Maxim, who married Eldon Joubert, Ignacy Jan Paderewski's piano tuner. [38]
His first wife was Louisa Jane Budden, an English immigrant whom he married in 1867. They had three children – a son and two daughters. In 1878 he went through a secret marriage with 15-year-old Helen Leighton.
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (ur. 5 lutego 1840 w Sangerville w stanie Maine, zm. 24 listopada 1916 w Londynie) – wynalazca i przedsiębiorca amerykańskiego pochodzenia, w 1880 roku wyemigrował do Zjednoczonego Królestwa Wielkiej Brytanii i Irlandii. Za swe dokonania wyróżniony w 1901 roku tytułem szlacheckim przez królową Wiktorię.
Hiram Maxim (born February 5, 1840, Sangerville, Maine, U.S.—died November 24, 1916, London, England) was a prolific inventor best known for the Maxim machine gun. The eldest son of a farmer who was a locally notable mechanic, Maxim was apprenticed at age 14 to a carriage maker.
24 lis 2020 · Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an American-born British inventor, best known as the creator of the Maxim Gun, the first portable fully automatic machine gun.
29 maj 2018 · He was opinionated and self-centered, and even his younger brother Hudson, also an inventor, found him impossible as a colleague. Twice married, Maxim had two children; his son, Hiram Percy Maxim, became well known as an inventor in his own right. Maxim died in Streatham, London, on Nov. 24, 1916. Further Reading
5 lut 2021 · The 1 Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, engineer and inventor, was born On This Day 5 February 1840 at Brockway's Mills, near Sangerville, Maine, USA, the elder son of Isaac Weston Maxim (1814–1883) and his wife, Harriet Boston (1815–1901), daughter of Levi Stevens of Maine.
