India rubber world . s finished, in1889, he became chief engineer at the Boston Navy Yard, andfilled that office until shortly before his retirement with therank of commodore, in July, 1894. The day after his retire-ment from active service he went into business as treasurer ofthe Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York), whichcompany had been incorporated, under the laws of New Jersey,in the October preceding. Mr. Henderson continued to fillthis position until a few months ago, when he was succeededin it by his son, Eliot M. Henderson. While interested in thiscompany he organized and con
India rubber world . s finished, in1889, he became chief engineer at the Boston Navy Yard, andfilled that office until shortly before his retirement with therank of commodore, in July, 1894. The day after his retire-ment from active service he went into business as treasurer ofthe Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York), whichcompany had been incorporated, under the laws of New Jersey,in the October preceding. Mr. Henderson continued to fillthis position until a few months ago, when he was succeededin it by his son, Eliot M. Henderson. While interested in thiscompany he organized and conducted a steamship company,running a line of vessels along the coast of Maine. When the Spanish war broke out Commodore Hendersonvolunteered his services, and again returned to active duty,serving until the close of the war as fleet engineer of the aux-iliary navy. His three sons, and his son-in-law, William , also served in the navy during the same war. Commodore Henderson was twice shipwrecked and had yel-. low fever in foreign ports three times, yet he was until last yearrugged and active. He lived in New York from 1894 to 1897,when he removed to Yonkers, New York, where he died January12. The funeral was held in St. Pauls church, Yonkers, onJanuary 15, and the interment was private. He leaves a widowand five children, all of whom live in this part of the children are Eliot M. Henderson, Alexander Henderson,Henry H. Henderson, Annie H. Stayton, and Elizabeth SKETCH OF JAMES P. late James Pierpont Langdon, president of the NewBrunswick Tire Co., whose death was reported in the last In-dia Rubber World, was born in 1823 at Bethlehem, in theNaugatuck valley, Connecticut. He was the son of the Langdon. His early life was spent on the farm of hisgrandfather, James Pierpont, at Litchfield, Connecticut, and atthe age of 18 he became employed in the drug store of a brotherat Naugatuck. In 1847—in his twenty-fourth year—he be
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