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Birth:          1839 Windham, Cumberland Co., Me.
Death:          1922 

Notes
1850 in Windham, Cumberland Co., Me.
1860 in Brunswick, Cumberland Co., Me.
1870 in Watertown, Middlesex Co., Mass. lieut, US Army
1880 in Watervliet, Albany Co., N.Y. as Almond capt US Armey
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from http://www.indianahistory.org/library/manuscripts/collection_guides/M0639.html
Almon Libby Varney (1839-1922) was born in Windham, Maine, served as a lieutenant 
in ordnance with the 13th Maine Regiment during the Civil War, and married Hannah 
Josephine Gibson (1843-19 ) of Medford, Massachusetts in 1866. Varney was a career 
army officer which included serving as commander of the arsenals in Watertown, 
Massachusetts (1889-1892), Indianapolis (1892-1899), and San Antonio, Texas (1899
-1903). Varney attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before his retirement from 
active service in 1903. The Varneys had two children, Gordon Edward (1867-1931), 
owner of an electrical engineering business in Indianapolis from 1900-1919, and 
Theodore (1874-19 ) who also was in the electrical engineering business in 
Indianapolis. In 1898, Gordon Varney married Katharine Porter, the daughter of 
Edward Porter ( -1909) and granddaughter of Albert Gallatin Porter. They had three 
children, Gordon Varney, Jr., Porter Varney, and Josephine Varney Cannon.

Class of 1862 Bowdoin College, per 
www.bowdoin.edu/~prael/research/cwalum/alum_union.htm



Parents
VARNEY Joel (6 Feb 1809 - 14 Nov 1879)
LOWELL Jane (26 Nov 1815 - 28 Oct 1867)

Siblings
VARNEY Lois (25 Aug 1837 - 26 Jul 1853)
VARNEY Almon Libby (1839 - 1922)
VARNEY Edward Lowell (23 Aug 1842 - 10 Dec 1863)
VARNEY Dora Elma (1851 - )

Marriage To GIBSON Hannah Josephine (22 Jan 1843 - )
    m. 9 May 1866 

Notes

Parents
GIBSON James ()
SHATTUCK Mary Jane ()

Children by GIBSON Hannah Josephine 22 Jan 1843 - 
VARNEY Gordon Edward (26 Feb 1867 - 1931)
VARNEY Theodore (27 Jan 1874 - )

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