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George C. Castleman (Louisville merchant and Henry County farmer)

b. 1810-09-29 d. 1898-12-07

Kentucky steamboat captain, merchant/grocer, and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Jane C. Torbitt Castleman. Married to Mary J. Brinker Gist Castleman in 1859. Father of Samuel Castleman, Martha Castleman, David Castleman, and Josephine Castleman. Received a private school education. Clerk aboard the steamer Herold. Commander of the Gen. Wayne in 1835. Commander of the Robert Morris and the Ben Franklin. Captain of the Sherrod in 1837. Retired from the river life and returned to the family homestead in Woodford County, Kentucky. Engaged in the trading of cattle in Texas. Wholesale grocer in the company Castleman & Torbitt in Louisville, Kentucky from 1859 to 1861. Owned twelve enslaved persons in 1860. Member of the Christian Church in Henry County.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 138.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 17.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 356-357.

"George Clinton Castleman," ( https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=111990053&ref=acom) (accessed on April 17, 2017.

Citation

Castleman, George C.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213405 (November 12, 2026).

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