Henry Deringer - Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship

Henry Deringer's father, Henry Deringer, Sr. was also a gunsmith who came to the U.S. before the Revolutionary War, living in Richmond, Virginia and then in Pennsylvania. He sent his son Henry to Richmond to apprentice with another gunsmith there.

Henry moved back to Pennsylvania after serving his apprenticeship and set up shop in 1806 in Philadelphia, on Tamarind Street.