Talk:Joseph Henderson/Archive01

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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)