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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

Zerbst, Alma

  • Birth date: January 1, 1889
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White, German
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Zehrung, Frank Connell

  • Birth date: October 7, 1858
  • Birth place: Iowa, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Yates, Frank

  • Birth date: June 4, 1895
  • Birth place: Chereske, Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • 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

Worley, Katherine F.

  • Birth date: October 12, 1876
  • Birth place: Nebraska, United States
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Woolsey, King S.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1833
  • Birth place: Alabama
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent

Woolery, James H.

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

Woodrough, Joseph William

  • Birth date: August 29, 1873
  • Birth place: Ohio, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney, judge

Wood, H. E.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1857
  • Birth place: Pennsylvania
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Wittekopf, Brandon W.

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

Wingard, Samuel C.

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

Wilson, Oliver Perry

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

Wilson, Oliver M.

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

Wilson, Addaline A.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1908
  • Birth place: Washington
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Williams, Elisabeth S. (Elizabeth)

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

Wiestling, Frank Beecher

  • Birth date: April 1, 1865
  • Birth place: Pennsylvania
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney, respondent attorney

Whitten, John (Jesse)

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

Whitney, Mary Irene

  • Birth date: January 1, 1901
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Whitney, John P. (John B. Whitney)

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

Wheeler, Mason

  • Birth date: April 16, 1886
  • Birth place: Nebraska, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent attorney

Weistling, J. M.

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

Weedin, Luther

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, authority ordering detention, holding party

Waughop, John Wesley

  • Birth date: October 22, 1839
  • Birth place: Illinois, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, holding party, responding party

Watson, Russell G.

  • Birth date: February 1, 1898
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Watson, Myrtle

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

Watson, Fred G.

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

Watson, Edna M. (Gerould, Edna M. )

  • Birth date: March 1, 1878
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Warner, Fred Maltby

  • Birth date: July 21, 1865
  • Birth place: England
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Warner, Floyd

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

Warner, Donald

  • Birth date: January 1, 1905
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Walker, John K.

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

Wakeley, Arthur C.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1856
  • Birth place: Wisconsin
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Judge

Voullaire, Seymour

  • Birth date: January 1, 1832
  • Birth place: Guadeloupe
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney

Votaw, Heber Herbert

  • Birth date: March 3, 1881
  • Birth place: Ohio
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Responding party

Vetter, Susannah

  • Birth date: January 1, 1864
  • Birth place: New York
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White, German
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Van Ormer, Christina (Christiana Summerlad)

  • Birth date: September 1, 1846
  • Birth place: Germany
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White, German
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Van Duesen, Charles H. (Van Deusen)

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

Uhling, Edith O. (Uhlig)

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

Uhling, Cassius M. (Uhlig)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1885
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Turner, George M.

  • Birth date: February 25, 1850
  • Birth place: United States, Missouri
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Judge

Turkington, Jennie (Jennie E. Turkington)

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

Tucker, Nathaniel

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

Truitt, Warren

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

Trieber, Jacob

  • Birth date: October 6, 1853
  • Birth place: Germany
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White, Jewish
  • Case role(s): Judge

Treichel, Arthur

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

Todd, John Blair Smith

  • Birth date: April 4, 1814
  • Birth place: Kentucky, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, holding party

Tinkham, William W.

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

Tinkham, Annie

  • Birth date: January 1, 1852
  • Birth place: Wales
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Interested party

Thompson, Will H. (William Henry Thompson)

  • Birth date: December 14, 1853
  • Birth place: Ohio
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney, judge

Thomas, George F.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1814
  • Birth place: Virginia
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, holding party, responding party
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