BU  DA,  a  village  in  Bureau  County,  at  the  junc-
tion of  the  main  line  with  the  Buda  and  Rush-
ville  branch  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy
Railroad,  and  the  Sterling  and  Peoria  branch  of
the  Chicago  &  Northwestern,  12  miles  southwest
of  Princeton  and  117  miles  west-southwest  of
Chicago;  has  excellent  water-works,  electric-
light  plant,  brick  and  tile  factory,  fine  churches,
graded  school,  a  bank  and  one  newspaper
Dairying  is  carried  on  quite  extensively  and  a
good-sized  creamery  is  located  here.  Population
(1890),  990;  (1900),  873;  (1910),  887.
BUFORD,  Napoleon  Bonaparte,  banker  and
soldier,  was  born  in  Woodford  County,  Ky. ,  Jan,
13,  1807 ;  graduated  at  "West  Point  Military  Acad-
emy, 1827,  and  served  for  some  time  as  Lieutenant
of  Artillery;  entered  Harvard  Law  School  in
1831,  served  as  Assistant  Professor  of  Natural  and
Experimental  Philosophy  there  (1834-35),  then
resigned  his  commission,  and,  after  some  service
as  an  engineer  upon  public  works  in  Kentucky,
established  himself  as  an  iron-founder  and  banker
at  Rock  Island,  111.,  in  1857  becoming  President
of  the  Rock  Island  &  Peoria  Railroad.  In  1861
he  entered  the  volunteer  service,  as  Colonel  of
the  Twenty-seventh  Illinois,  serving  at  various
points  in  Western  Kentucky  and  Tennessee,  as
also  in .  the  siege  of  Vicksburg,  and  at  Helena,
Ark.,  where  he  was  in  command  from  Septem-
ber, 1863,  to  March,  1865.  In  the  meantime,  by
promotion,  he  attained  to  the  rank  of  Major-
General  by  brevet,  being  mustered  out  in  August,
1865.  He  subsequently  held  the  post  of  Special
United  States  Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs
(1868),  and  that  of  Inspector  of  the  Union  Pacific
Railroad  (1867-69).     Died,  March  28,  1883.
