Bio of DENNY, Charles M., Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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CHARLES M. DENNY - Vol II, pg 121-122
A representative of one of America's oldest and most prominent families is
Charles M. Denny, president of the Denny Land Company here. He was born in
Orange county, Indiana, and received his early education in the public schools
of his birthplace. In due time he entered Northwestern University and, after
completing his education, made his initial step into the business world in the
life insurance business. He was active in that connection for five years, at the
termination of which time he removed to South Dakota and entered the real estate
business as secretary of the G. H. Perry Land Company at Sioux Falls, that
state. He later resigned his position with that company to accept a like
position with the Everett-Denny Land Company, and in 1912 he determined to
engage in the real estate business on his own account. He subsequently organized
the Denny Land Company in South Dakota and the following year moved to
Minneapolis, establishing his headquarters here, where he has since remained.
The Denny Land Company is a close corporation, of which Charles M. Denny is the
president, and although for some time the company dealt extensively in South
Dakota lands, it now operates entirely in Minnesota properties. Mr. Denny is a
practical business man, with keen discrimination and excellent executive
ability, and the high and honorable methods which he employs in the conduct of
his business have won for him the confidence and respect of all with whom he has
come into contact.
On the 3d of May, 1892, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Denny to Miss Mabel
Sheldon and to their union two children have been born: Charles M., Jr., and
Alice Bristol. Charles M. Denny, Jr., enlisted in the American army for service
in the World war, when in his senior year at the University of Minnesota. He was
sent to the Officers' Training Camp at Fort Snelling and was there commissioned
a second lieutenant. On the 1st of January, 1918, he sailed for France and
subsequently he became first lieutenant in the Seventeenth United States Field
Artillery. He was in active service throughout the Chateau Thierry, Meuse and
Argonne offensives and after the armistice was signed was made instructor in the
radio department of the American Artillery School at Le Valdahon, France. On the
first of July, 1919, he returned to the United States and was mustered out of
the service. He is now engaged in the general insurance business here under the
firm name of Long-Denny Agency. Alice Bristol is a graduate of the University of
Minnesota, having received the B. S. degree in 1918. She is a very charming
young woman and prominent in the club and social circles of this city. She was
married in May, 1922, to Paul S. Taylor of this city.
Mr. Denny has always given his political endorsement to the republican party and
although he has never sought nor desired public preferment, he is a close
student of the living issues of the day and takes a prominent part in all
movements for the improvement of the general welfare. Fraternally he is
identified with the Delta Upsilon, a national social college fraternity of high
standing, and socially he is identified with the Minneapolis Athletic Club.
There is no phase of the real estate business with which Mr. Denny is not
familiar and during the many years he has been active in that connection he has
made many friends and achieved well-merited success.