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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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Booge, John J.

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

Booge, L.

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

Hanford, C. H.

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

Stevens, Sariah

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

Baldwin, Arthur

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

Patrick, Robert W.

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

Dykeman, King

  • Birth date: May 15, 1874
  • Birth place: New Brunswick, Canada
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention, respondent, responding party, judge

Elder, A. R.

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

Navarre, J. A.

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

Greene, James L.

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

Ronald, James Theodore (John T., J. P.)

  • 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

Snyder, J. R.

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

Ross, W. J.

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

Sellers, Albert P.

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

Boehler, Edwin C.

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

Eberstein, Marshall

  • Birth date: January 1, 1859
  • Birth place: Michigan
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party, authority ordering detention

Day, L. B.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1889
  • Birth place: Missouri
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney, judge, authority ordering detention

Still, J. W.

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

Jones, H. F.

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

Heitfeld, Henry (Heitfeldt)

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

West, Oswald

  • Birth date: May 20, 1873
  • Birth place: Canada
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Burnhaus, C. A.

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

Bell, W. R.

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

Peel, J. J. L. (Paul)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1834
  • Birth place: United States, Tennessee
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Manning, George W.

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

Mills, Anson

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

Pearce, Vine W.

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

Johnstone, Peter W.

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

Johnstone, Walter L.

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

Begley, James T.

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

Hanford, Cornelius Holgate

  • Birth date: April 21, 1849
  • Birth place: United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Judge, respondent attorney, petitioner attorney, authority ordering detention

McBride, Henry W.

  • Birth date: February 27, 1856
  • Birth place: Utah
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Singhaus, John A.

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

Miller, John F.

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

Ridgeway, W.

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

Cable, Benjamin S.

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

Newton, W. L.

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

Marsters, R. W.

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

Glasgow, Joseph M.

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

Elliot, H. S.

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

Black, John

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

McCandless, L. A.

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

Densmore, J. B.

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

Howard, Edgar

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

Small, Lennington (Len)

  • Birth date: June 16, 1862
  • Birth place: Illinois
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Humphries, John E.

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

McKelvie, Samuel Roy

  • Birth date: April 15, 1881
  • Birth place: United States, Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Humes, Thomas Jefferson

  • Birth date: February 14, 1849
  • Birth place: Indiana
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney, judge, authority ordering detention

Bishop, John S.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1861
  • Birth place: New York, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention, petitioner attorney

(Secretary of the Interior),

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