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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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Dineen, Frank Michael (F. M. Dineen)

  • Birth date: August 21, 1894
  • Birth place: Omaha, Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention, responding party, police magistrate

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

Hascall, Vincent C.

  • Birth date: January 19, 1888
  • Birth place: United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Justice of the peace, petitioner attorney, authority ordering detention, respondent attorney

Beal, Henry J.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1886
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent attorney, petitioner attorney, 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

Emery, Charles D.

  • Birth date: May 16, 1878
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Respondent attorney, petitioner attorney, authority ordering detention

Hyde, Arthur Mastick

  • Birth date: July 12, 1877
  • Birth place: Missouri
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Manning, Ernest T. (Ernest C.)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, authority ordering detention, holding party

Langley, James Weston

  • Birth date: January 1, 1876
  • Birth place: Pennsylvania
  • 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

West, Oswald

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

Olcott, Ben Wilson

  • Birth date: October 15, 1872
  • Birth place: Illinois, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, authority ordering detention

Dunn, John T. (John J. Dunn)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1872
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention, respondent, holding party, responding party

de Graff, Lawrence

  • Birth date: June 24, 1871
  • Birth place: United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Lister, Ernest

  • Birth date: June 15, 1870
  • Birth place: England
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Cox, James Middleton

  • Birth date: March 31, 1870
  • Birth place: Ohio
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Steiner, R. E. Lee

  • Birth date: January 1, 1870
  • Birth place: Ohio, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party, authority ordering detention

Bryan, Charles Wayland

  • Birth date: February 10, 1867
  • Birth place: Illinois
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Johnson, Hiram W.

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

Hay, Marion E.

  • Birth date: December 8, 1865
  • Birth place: Wisconsin
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Warner, Fred Maltby

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

Holmes, George

  • Birth date: January 1, 1864
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White, Irish
  • Case role(s): Police magistrate, authority ordering detention, judge

Deneen, Charles Samuel

  • Birth date: May 4, 1863
  • Birth place: Illinois
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Small, Lennington (Len)

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

Mead, Albert E. (Elbert)

  • Birth date: December 14, 1861
  • Birth place: Kansas
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Morehead, John Henry

  • Birth date: December 3, 1861
  • Birth place: United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): 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

Sears, Willis G.

  • Birth date: August 16, 1860
  • Birth place: Ohio
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Judge, bound 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

Farrell, Cornelius

  • Birth date: January 1, 1857
  • Birth place: Wisconsin
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Irish
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

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

Cooper, J.K.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1845
  • Birth place: Delaware
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention, justice of the peace

Lacy, O. P.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1835
  • Birth place: Ohio
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention, justice of the peace

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

Lewis, Joseph R.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1830
  • Birth place: Ohio
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Judge, authority ordering detention

Jacobs, Orange

  • Birth date: May 2, 1827
  • Birth place: New York
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Judge, authority ordering detention

Ferry, Elisha P.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1825
  • Birth place: Monroe County, Michigan
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney, authority ordering detention

Ramsby, Robinson Crusoe

  • Birth date: November 5, 1823
  • Birth place: Ohio, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Simmons, Cyrenius Canfield

  • Birth date: March 19, 1819
  • Birth place: New York, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention, petitioner attorney

Filley, Oliver Dwight

  • Birth date: May 23, 1806
  • Birth place: Connecticut, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Ferguson, Peter

  • Birth date: January 26, 1788
  • Birth place: Scotland
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Butler, Edward Mann

  • Birth date: July 13, 1784
  • Birth place: Maryland, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Carr, William C.

  • Birth date: April 15, 1783
  • Birth place: Virginia, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Judge, authority ordering detention

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

Roberts, J. H.

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

Waite, Liberty

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

Crounse, Lorenzo

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

Miller, J. S.

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

Gordon, Samuel I.

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