| Two factors made Hiram Revels especially interesting to the Washington establishment. |
| Hiram Johnson and his Progressives had envisioned idealistic volunteers petitioning citizens for signatures and debating causes they believed in. |
| Hiram Maxim, an American, was the inventor of the world's first fully automatic machine gun. |
| It was a fit moment for amalgamation, and this was accomplished in 1856 by Mr. Hiram Sibley. |
| And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees and precious stones. |
| It was hard to believe that she was the daughter of so crusty a man as Hiram Bartlett. |
