Champaign County IL Archives Biographies.....Busey, Samuel Thompson 1835 - 
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Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary

BUSEY, Samuel Thompson, soldier, was born at Greencastle, Ind., Nov. 16, 1835. 
When but a child he was taken by his parents to Urbana, Ill., where he labored 
on a farm, attended a district school at intervals, and was clerk in a store. 
In 1862, as 2nd lieutenant in the recruiting service, he organized a company 
of volunteers, of which he was elected captain, and on the organization of the 
76th Illinois regiment was commissioned lieutenant-colonel; in the ensuing 
January he succeeded to the command of the regiment, and in May was mustered 
in as colonel. He was on several occasions mentioned in general orders for 
meritorious services and distinguished bravery, and was brevetted brigadier-
general for leading the assault on Fort Blakeley, Ala., on April 9, 1865, when 
he scaled the enemys works alone, and engaged, unsupported, in a hand-to-hand 
encounter with a gun squad, killing the gunner and wounding two others of the 
squad. Though severely wounded himself, he received in person the surrender of 
the Confederate officer and his staff. He was mustered out of service in 
August, 1865, with the rank of brevet brigadier-general. In 1867 he organized 
Buseys bank at Urbana, which he successfully managed for twenty-one years, 
when he retired from business in 1888. In 1880 he was elected mayor, and 
president of the board of education of the city of Urbana, by five successive 
elections held those offices for nine years, and in 1890 was elected a 
representative to the 52nd Congress as a Democrat, defeating Joseph G. Cannon, 
the Republican incumbent, in a district that had been Republican for years, 
and had been represented by Mr. Cannon continuously from 1873.

Additional Comments:
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904.

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