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Below is a family biography included in the Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania published in 1904 by T. S. Benham & Company and The Lewis Publishing Company; Elwood Roberts, Editor.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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HERMANN A. DENCKLA, son of C. Paul and Mary (Williamson) Denckla, is a native of the city of Philadelphia, where he was born February 11, 1872. He attended private schools in that city, among them the DeLancy School, conducted by the well known scholar and educator, Prof. Henry Hobart Brown. He graduated from that institution in the class of 1890, and entered the scientific department of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in the class of 1894. He married, in 1895, Edith Benezet, daughter of Herbert B. and Mary (Stuart) Tyson, of Philadelphia. After his marriage Mr. Denckla located for a time in Philadelphia. In 1898 he purchased the farm in Lower Gwynedd on which he now resides, containing fifty-two acres of land, and known as “Trewerryn Farm,” where he devotes his time to general farming and the raising of poultry, principally ducks. In 1901 he bought the Joseph Singerly estate, which adjoins his property and contains sixty-seven acres of fine land, which he also manages very successfully in the same way as his own. In religious faith the family are Episcopalians, being members of the Church of the Messiah at Gwynedd, he being a vestryman. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Denckla: Mary Tyson, born August 11, 1896; Edith Pauline, born July 18, 1898; C. Paul, born July 16, 1900.

C. Paul Denckla (father) was the son of Augustus Henry Denckla, and he was born in the city of Philadelphia. He attended the public schools of that city. He then engaged with the firm of Heaton & Denckla, the senior member of which was his uncle, and on his uncle’s death succeeded him in the firm, their business being dealing in hardware in a wholesale way. He married Mary, daughter of Mahlon Williamson, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Their children: Mary Williamson, born April 22, 1868, married Arthur Whitney, son of Rev. Mark Antony DeWolff Howe, D. D., LL. D., bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church, Diocese of Central Pennsylvania, and has four children, Paul Denckla, Arthur Whitney, Williamson Howe and Mary Howe, residing in Philadelphia; C. Paul; Hermann, subject of this sketch.

Herbert Benezet Tyson, father of Mrs. Hermann Denckla, is the son of Dr. James Lawrence and Caroline (Drinker) Tyson. He was born in Philadelphia, attended the schools of that city, and on reaching the proper age entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis from which he graduated and served as a lieutenant under the famous fighter, Admiral Farragut, at Mobile Bay and New Orleans. He was with Farragut at the opening of the blockade on the Mississippi river, being on the same vessel with him through the entire war, and at the close of the war in 1865. He then retired from the navy and entered the business office of his father-in-law, who was at that time engaged extensively in importing dry goods in Philadelphia. He was so engaged until 1892, when he became assistant collector of the port of Philadelphia, under John B. Read, who was collector of the port under President Cleveland’s second administration. After serving in that position for four years he resigned on a change of administration, and entered the banking business. The children of Herbert B. and Mary S. Tyson: Caroline Brinker, married Percival Drayton; Mary Stuart, unmarried and resides at Penllyn; Rev. Stuart Lawrence, married Catharine Rosengarten, daughter of Mitchell Rosengarten, of Philadelphia, and resides at Oxford, England; Edith Benezet, wife of Hermann Denckla; Esther, unmarried, and resides at Baltimore, Maryland; Patty Kyle, married W. Brentwood Smith, son of Winthrop and Florence (Chapman) Smith, and resides at Chestnut Hill.

Augustus Henry Denckla, grandfather of Hermann Denckla, was the son of Christian Denckla.

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This family biography is one of more than 1,000 biographies included in the Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania published in 1904 by T. S. Benham & Company and The Lewis Publishing Company.  For the complete description, click here: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

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