Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

C. B. GARNSEY (GARNSEY & KNOX), attorney at law, Joliet; was born in Livingston Co., N. Y., 
Oct. 25, 1842; he was educated at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, and in 1859 came to Will Co., 
spending a year or more in Wilmington; in 1861, he entered the law department of the Chicago 
University, graduating July 1, 1862. On the 30th of the same month, he enlisted in Co. A, 100th 
IL. V. I.; was soon afterward transferred to the non-commissioned staff as Commissary Sergeant 
of the regiment, and served as such during the war, being with his regiment from the time it left 
home, until its muster out in July, 1865, when he returned to Joliet, and entered upon the practice 
of his profession. He was appointed Master in Chancery in 1867, and served four years, resigning 
in 1871. He is at present Corporation Counsel for the city of Joliet, to which he was appointed 
Jan. 1, 1878. He was married in 1867 to Miss Mary A. HENDERSON, of Wilmington, IL, and has two 
children.