Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Denckla, Hermann A. February 11, 1872 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

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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