 His will provided for legacies to his family, identified in the "Herald" at the time as wife Louisa A. and children Mary M. Lichtenberger, Antoinette Lichtenberger, Leontine V. Denker, Isabella C. Mayer and Louis A. Denker, and two brothers and a sister.His estate was estimated informally to be about a million dollars.In 1873-74 A.H. Denker was elected as a member of the Kern County Board of Supervisors, and despite the fact that he favored retaining Havilah as the county seat, a popular election decided 354 to 332 to move the seat of government to Bakersfield.