When Denver Shook Abrams was born on 9 January 1895, in Wapello, Louisa, Iowa, United States, his father, Miles Andrew Abrams, was 51 and his mother, Elizabeth Anna Hamilton, was 41. He married Lunettie Nettie Zollman on 17 February 1915, in Macon, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Perry, Dallas, Iowa, United States in 1935 and Judicial Township 3, Kern, California, United States in 1940. He died on 3 August 1989, in Oregon City, Clackamas, Oregon, United States, at the age of 94.