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Died in Service
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As a member of the 4th Kansas infantry, he was mustered into US Army service during the Civil War; he served through several border skirmishes and in Washington, DC.
After returning to Kansas, he was commissioned by the railroads to survey and lay out a trading post in SE Kanas. He would lose the coin toss of the town's naming but still be integral in the creation of Coffeyville, Kansas (read about it here).
Captain Blanton next moved to Abbyville, Kansas, where he presided over a land company. Finally, in 1903, he moved to Witchita, Kansas.
Captain Napoleon Bonaparte Blanton would die on April 29, 1913, after being struck by a car. He would be the city's first auto-pedestrian fatality. He rests at the Maple Grove Cemetery in Wichita Kansas
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