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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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581 results

Booge, John J.

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Teter, Willard S.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1878
  • Birth place: Illinois
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Fuller, Helen S.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1894
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White, Danish
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Dawson, Lulu

  • Birth date: January 1, 1898
  • Birth place: Nebraska, United States
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Reiter, Johanna

  • Birth date: April 1, 1863
  • Birth place: Kappeln, Germany
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, holding party, responding party

Alsop, J. T.

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Judge

Seeley, Gean Lucille (Jean)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1912
  • Birth place: Nebraska, United States
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Wyche, James E.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1828
  • Birth place: Mississippi
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Judge

Christy, Ruth

  • Birth date: January 1, 1909
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Booge, John J. (Borge)

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Maurer, Rudolph

  • Birth date: November 23, 1890
  • Birth place: United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Brown Jr., Beriah

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney

Jones, Ray

  • Birth date: January 1, 1914
  • Birth place: Missouri
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Kinney, John (John F. Kinney Jr., Frank Kinney)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1900
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Test, Jo Janelene

  • Birth date: May 28, 1914
  • Birth place: Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Harrison, Ellis M.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1887
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Sawtell, Fred E.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1854
  • Birth place: Illinois
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent

Pickard, Aubrey

  • Birth date: January 1, 1899
  • Birth place: Nebraska, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Johnson, Hiram W.

  • Birth date: September 2, 1866
  • Birth place: California
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Atherton, B.E. (Benjamin Earnest Atherton)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1885
  • Birth place: Kansas
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Sanguinette, Nathan (Sanguinetti)

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Black, White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Dobbs, Lemuel M.

  • Birth date: April 1, 1842
  • Birth place: Pennsylvania
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Ronald, James Theodore

  • Birth date: April 8, 1855
  • Birth place: Missouri
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Judge, respondent attorney, petitioner attorney, authority ordering detention

Carter, Jesse

  • Birth date: January 1, 1865
  • Birth place: Ohio
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Treichel, Arthur

  • Birth date: December 25, 1917
  • Birth place: United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Cramer, Eddy

  • Birth date: January 1, 1895
  • Birth place: Nebraska, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Jackson, Etta

  • Birth date: January 1, 1865
  • Birth place: Kentucky
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, holding party

Day, George A.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1860
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney, judge

Lane, Frances

  • Birth date: January 1, 1909
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Miller, Frances

  • Birth date: January 1, 1842
  • Birth place: Connecticut
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Interested party

Warner, Floyd

  • Birth date: January 1, 1904
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown, White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Morrissey, Andrew Marcus

  • Birth date: December 27, 1869
  • Birth place: New York
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Judge, chief justice

Davis, Clarence W.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1886
  • Birth place: Illinois
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Mickey, John H.

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Raphael, Mother Superior (Sister M. Raphael, Mary of St. Raphael Moran, Mother Raphael, M. Raphael Moran)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1854
  • Birth place: United States
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Holding party, responding party, respondent

Brown, Joseph C.

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White

Petosky, (Anna)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1883
  • Birth place: Germany
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Interested party

Dungan, Harry S.

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Iowa, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Judge

Slabaugh, Willard. W.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1857
  • Birth place: United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Judge, petitioner attorney, respondent attorney

Harrison, Eileen M.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1888
  • Birth place: Kansas, United States
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Garesché, Peter Bauduy

  • Birth date: November 10, 1822
  • Birth place: Delaware, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney

Dore, John Francis

  • Birth date: December 11, 1881
  • Birth place: United States, Massachusetts
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney

Allen, John H.

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Kolmitz, Charlotte M.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1895
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: Jewish, White
  • Case role(s): Respondent attorney, responding party

Porter, Garnett C.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1867
  • Birth place: Kentucky
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Marshall, William

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Manion, Lera

  • Birth date: January 1, 1905
  • Birth place: Nebraska, United States
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Revelle, Thomas P.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1868
  • Birth place: United States, Maryland
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent attorney, petitioner attorney

McAlvoy, James (alias James Roy)

  • Birth date: July 1, 1837
  • Birth place: Pennsylvania, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Cannon, Anderson M.

  • Birth date: November 22, 1871
  • Birth place: Oregon, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney
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