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Pinkney Varble (Louisville, Kentucky, riverboat captain)

b. 1828-09-05 d. 1892-04-02

Louisville, Kentucky, riverboat captain. North Carolina native. Married to Mary Frances Littrell Varble in 1852. Father of Mary C. Varble, Nelson L. Varble, Pinkney Varble, Jr., Melvin D. Varble. Falls pilot in Louisville in 1860 and 1870. Owned and captained steamboats which transported troops and supplies during the Civil War.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 8th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 919-20.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 1, p. 124.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 4, p. 20.

Find A Grave, "Daniel Pinkney "Pink" Varble (1828-1892)," Memorial #84250064, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84250064 (accessed October 26, 2017).
“Reminiscences of Capt. "Pink" Varble,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), August 8, 1897, p. A6.

Citation

Varble, Pinkney. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207770 (November 12, 2026).

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