1. Henry Deringer is best known for inventing and giving his name to the derringer pistol.
11 Facts About Henry Deringer
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Henry Deringer sent his son to Richmond to apprentice with another gunsmith there.
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Henry Deringer moved back to Pennsylvania after serving his apprenticeship and set up shop in 1806 in Philadelphia, on Tamarind Street.
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Henry Deringer married Elizabeth Hollobush at the First Reformed Church in Philadelphia on April 5,1810.
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Henry Deringer produced trade rifles, designated for the Native American tribes, to fulfill the US treaty obligations.
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Henry Deringer's specialties became fine sporting rifles and dueling pistols.
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Henry Deringer was innovative; he perfected the percussion cap about 1820, and Deringer was marketing them by the 1830s, and possibly the mid-1820s.
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Henry Deringer never claimed a patent for his pistols and the public bought them as fast as he produced them.
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Some of Henry Deringer's workmen left the company to set up their own duplicates, while others copied his pistols as closely as possible with some even putting on its Henry Deringer name and trademark.
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Henry Deringer fought these infringements for most of his business life.
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Henry Deringer died in 1868 at the age of 81 and was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.