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This is a pressed and pierced tin candle lantern. Half-round lantern has clear glass pane beneath pierced conical top. Hinged metal door with snap latch opens to reveal candle socket on interior. Hiram C. Coville brought this lantern to Kansas Territory from Ohio. The Covilles were early settlers, landing first in Lawrence and quickly moving west to the Topeka area in 1855. Hiram was a soldier in the 2nd Kansas Militia, Company B, when he was killed during the Price Raid in 1864. His son, Allen, also used the lantern on the farm in Shawnee County.
Date: between 1800 and 1850
Item Number: 224282
Call Number: 1899.16.2
KSHS Identifier: 1899.16.2
Collections - Museum
Date - 1800-1819
Military - Wars - Civil War
Military - Wars - Civil War - Kansas Units - State Militia - 2nd Kansas State Militia Infantry
Military - Wars - Civil War - Price's Raid
Objects and Artifacts - Furnishings - Lighting Device - Lantern - Candle
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Douglas
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - Other States - Ohio
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Civil War, 1861 - 1865
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/224282
