Will County IL Archives Biographies.....GARNSEY, CHARLES 
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Author: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

CHARLES B. GARNSEY was born in Lima, Livingston County, N. Y., October 25, 

1842, a son of Nathan and Emily (Benedict) Garnsey, natives of Saratoga County, 

N. Y.  His paternal grandfather, Nathan, changed the spelling of the family 

name from Garnesy to the form now in general use.  The Garnesys originally came 

from England to Stamford, Conn., while the Benedicts were also early English 

settlers of Connecticut.   The subject of this article was the oldest of three 

sons, two of whom are living.  He was educated in public schools and the 

Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Lima.  May 7, 1859, was the date of his arrival at 

Wilmington, Will County, Ill.  He worked on a farm and later clerked in a store 

there, thence went to Manteno, Kankakee County.  In 1861 he entered the Union 

College of Law in Chicago, from which he graduated the next year with the 

degree of LL. B.  In July, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, One Hundredth 

Infantry, and went to the front, where he took part in various engagements, 

including Stone River and Chattanooga, and participated in the Atlanta campaign 

from Dalton to Atlanta, returning under Thomas to Nashville.  In April, 1863, 

he was made commissary sergeant.  In June, 1865, he was mustered out at 

Nashville, and on the 1st of July was discharged in Chicago.  August 7, 1865, 

Mr. Garnsey was admitted to the bar in Chicago.  He began to practice in 

Joliet, having Thomas H. Breckenridge as partner from 1871 to 1875, after which 

he was alone until 1877, and then became a member of the firm of Garnsey & 

Knox.  From 1867 to 1871 he was master in chancery for Will County.  In  1877 

he was elected corporation counsel of Joliet, which office he held for two 

years.  In 1882 he was elected county judge, and four years later was re-

elected, holding the office from December, 1882, to December, 1890.  He is a 

member of the State Bar Association.  In politics he is a Republican, and 

fraternally a Mason and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.  He was 

married in Wilmington to Mary A. Henderson, who was born in Herkimer County,  

N. Y., and by whom he has two sons, John Henderson Garnsey, a partner of his 

father;  and Charles B.,Jr.


Additional comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900



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