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Busey, Samuel Thompson

soldier, banker, congressman, was born Nov. 16, 1835, in Greencastle, Ind. He was first sergeant and first lieutenant of the Urbana Zouaves in 1861-62; was town collector in 1862; was commissioned second lieutenant in the recruiting service by Gov. Yates in June, 1862, and helped to organize the seventy-sixth Illinois volunteer infantry, and became colonel and was brevetted brigadier-general. He was mayor and president of the board of education of Urbana in 1880-89; organized Busey's bank in 1867, and conducted its business twenty-one years. He was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.