Editing Hiram Percy Maxim (section)

==Marriage and family==
He married Josephine Hamilton, the daughter of the former Maryland Governor [[William T. Hamilton]] December 21, 1898, in Hagerstown, Maryland.<ref>{{cite report |first=Hiram Percy |last=Maxim |date=October 22, 1923 |title=U.S. passport application}}</ref> They lived in Hartford, and had a son, Hiram Hamilton Maxim, and a daughter, Percy Hamilton Maxim, who married John Glessner Lee (grandson of [[John J. Glessner House|John J. Glessner]]). The [[John J. Glessner House]] designed by [[Henry Hobson Richardson]] is now a Chicago landmark.

Percy Maxim Lee (1906–2002) was president of the [[League of Women Voters]] from 1950–1958 and was appointed by [[John F. Kennedy|President Kennedy]] to the Consumer Advisory Council, which she later chaired. She advocated for debates between presidential candidates and testified in the U.S. Senate against Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] in 1955.