File:Joseph Henderson (1826-1890) obituary in the Evening Post of New York, New York on October 8, 1890.png

Death Of An Old Pilot. Joseph Henderson, one of the oldest, wealthiest, and most widely known pilots in the New York Sandy Hook service, died yesterday of peritonitis at his home in Brooklyn. Mr. Henderson was connected with pilot-boat America No. 1, and returned from a cruise on Monday last. He has been in the pilot service forty-five years, and was a Government pilot during the war. He leaves a widow ad three sons. He was worth $100,000. Henderson took the steamer Teutonic to sea on her first westward race across the Atlantic with the City of New York. He it was who piloted the Baltimore to the ocean on the occasion of the Ericson funeral. The funeral will take place from his late residence, N. 683 Willoughby Avenue, and will be attended by a number of shipping men, steamship officers, and the Board of Pilot Commissioners.

$100,000 in 1890 is equal to $2,700,000 in 2018.

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