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Biographical

  • Title – Captain of pilot boats for the Sandy Hook pilot service
  • 45 years as a New York pilot
  • Was in more accidents than any other pilots
  • Commissioned a pilot when he was 19 years old
  • Well known to all the large steamship owners
  • Expressly selected to tow the French steamship which transported the Statue of Liberty to the shores of New York
  • Call upon as an expert seaman to determine the height of the Brooklyn Bridge
  • Prominent free mason – Member of the Hill Grove Lodge

Notability

  • Primary Sources
  • Obituary about Henderson and his accomplishments, e.g. selected to tow the French steamship which transported the statue of Liberty
  • Notable for being the oldest and wealthiest of New York Pilots
  • Newspaper articles about him in the Brooklyn Eagle, NY Herald, NY Times
  • Captain in for the Sandy Hook Pilots, New York
  • Served for the Union during the Civil War
  • Secondary Sources
  • Charles Edward Russell, wrote about Henderson and the Sandy Hook men during the Civil War
  • Important U.S. Supreme Court cases - THE MARTELLO v. THE WILLEY, 153 U.S. 64 (1894)

Greg Henderson 04:33, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 21:52, 13 July 2020 (UTC) This issue has been resolved - see Afd page. --Greg Henderson (talk) 16:19, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]