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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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Edwards, J. F.

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

Byrnes, Thomas

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

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

Reed, H. W.

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Unknown
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Judge, police judge, authority ordering detention, police magistrate

Halridge, Howard

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

Graves, Guy T.

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

Thayer, John M.

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

Shoemaker, W. S.

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

Lyon, George G.

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

Hill, G. A.

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

Waters, Frank R.

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

Bowie, Charles W.

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

McKean, G. W.

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

Walden, C. W.

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

Hoeder, W. H. (Jr.)

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

Leeder, Ed

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

O'Brien, Samuel L.

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

Bown, H. L.

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

Weid, O. F.

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

Herckenrath, Rudolph

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

Ogden, Charles

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

Foster,

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

Taylor, Robert L.

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

Grannis, B. S.

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

Phelps, Gilbert W.

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

Tucker, Fred. M.

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention, justice of the peace

Piatti, Louis J.

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

Walter, O. P.

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

Noyes, C. R.

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

Cobb, C. W.

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

Cook, J. C.

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

Dwelley, Joseph F.

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

O'Donald, J.

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

Quisenberry, James

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

Cleeton, T. J.

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

Wappich, William F.

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney, authority ordering detention, police magistrate, judge

Smith, David

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

Lay, V. D.

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

Moron, Joseph

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention, justice of the peace

Reed, L. S.

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

Callison, J. A.

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

Hanks, C. M.

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

Holton, O. B.

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

Barclay, Robert H.

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

Morrow, Robert G.

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

Davis, P. V.

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

Hale, Henry C.

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

Parsons, Albert F.

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

Burns, John E.

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

Davis, Jonathan M.

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