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Meet the many people who argued for and against carceral, institutional, and interpersonal confinement in the petitions filed in County and District Courts throughout the American West over the long nineteenth century. Browse or search people by name, demographic characteristics, case role, and/or relationships described in each petition. Our encoding practice for people features data pulled from the available case files and in some instances additional data from supplemental sources is also included. Only people with case roles are indexed here, while all persons named in a case are listed on the case page. The Glossary defines the attributes used to structure data from the habeas petitions. The Code Book explains the relational structure of the data and functionality of the database website.

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Him, Chung (Jung Him)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1855
  • Birth place: China
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Chinese
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Ryan, John

  • Birth date: June 1, 1855
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Yates, Milo

  • Birth date: July 17, 1856
  • Birth place: Illinois
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Rasmus, Henry

  • Birth date: August 8, 1856
  • Birth place: Germany
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White, German
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Sigman, William

  • Birth date: January 1, 1857
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Carr, Samuel L.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1857
  • Birth place: Missouri, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Black
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Redick, Charles R.

  • Birth date: April 13, 1857
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney, petitioner, bound party

Ross, Loretta (née Durbin)

  • Birth date: November 17, 1857
  • Birth place: Oregon, United States
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Lung-Oh, Leo

  • Birth date: January 1, 1858
  • Birth place: China
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Chinese
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Coffman, Samuel J.

  • Birth date: March 1, 1858
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Holz, Adolph

  • Birth date: January 1, 1859
  • Birth place: Germany
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: German
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Evers, Christ (Christian Evers)

  • Birth date: August 1, 1859
  • Birth place: Germany
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White, German
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Lemke, William

  • Birth date: January 1, 1860
  • Birth place: Nebraska, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Kato, Gin

  • Birth date: January 1, 1860
  • Birth place: Japan
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Asian, Japanese
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Yam, Seid (Seid Yim)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1861
  • Birth place: China
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Chinese
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Tinkham, William W.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1861
  • Birth place: Wisconsin
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Marshall, Mary

  • Birth date: January 1, 1861
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Columbia, Jennie

  • Birth date: January 1, 1862
  • Birth place: Kansas
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Tarrant, George A.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1863
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Oo-Mod-ah (Good Provision)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1863
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: Indigenous
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Brandt, Frank

  • Birth date: January 1, 1864
  • Birth place: Illinois
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White, German
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Hajek, Joseph

  • Birth date: January 1, 1864
  • Birth place: Bohemia
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White, Czech
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Bevans, Frank G.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1865
  • Birth place: Minnesota
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Buras, Joseph (Josef)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1865
  • Birth place: Poland
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Polish
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Reiter, Hermann

  • Birth date: November 1, 1865
  • Birth place: Roggendorf, Austria
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White, German
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Dugan, John

  • Birth date: January 1, 1866
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party, interested party

Mazzine, Theodore

  • Birth date: January 1, 1867
  • Birth place: Italy
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Italian, White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Fiandt, Rhoda (Rhoda Sapp)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1869
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

McBride, George

  • Birth date: January 1, 1869
  • Birth place: Ireland
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White, Irish
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Primo, Laura (Primeau)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1869
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: Indigenous
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Holz, Marie (Mary Holz)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1870
  • Birth place: Germany
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: German
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Watson, Fred G.

  • Birth date: October 1, 1870
  • Birth place: Illinois
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Thacker, Edward

  • Birth date: January 1, 1871
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

McPhay, William (William Richards, Homer Walker)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1872
  • Birth place: Mississippi
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Black
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Nesladek, James

  • Birth date: January 1, 1872
  • Birth place: Bohemia
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Turkington, Jennie (Jennie E. Turkington)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1873
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Hahne, George W.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1873
  • Birth place: Minnesota
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Wilson, Oliver M.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1873
  • Birth place: Illinois
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Petosky, Alex (Petoskey)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1874
  • Birth place: Germany
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Davis, Carrie B.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1874
  • Birth place: Illinois
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Estes, Elmer

  • Birth date: January 1, 1874
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Taylor, George

  • Birth date: April 1, 1874
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Kinney, John (John F. Kinney)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1875
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Mills, Viola

  • Birth date: January 1, 1875
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Williams, Jane M.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1875
  • Birth place: Tennessee
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: Black
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Nesladek, Anna

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Bohemia
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Whitney, John P. (John B. Whitney)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Lyell, Estella

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Rupert, Emma

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Germany
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White, German
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

O'Dell, Pierce H. (Prince H. O'Dell)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: North Carolina
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Black
  • Case role(s): Bound party, petitioner
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