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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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Yildea, J. R.

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

Yarnell, J. S.

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

Wright, J. Taylor

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

Wright, H. M.

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

Withycombe, James

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

Wilson, William B.

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

Wilson, George W.

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

Wilcox, Seymour G.

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

Whitmore, G. H.

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

White, Henry M.

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

Westover, W. H.

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

Welty, D. T.

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • 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

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

Weber, William

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

Weber, George

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Sex: Male
  • 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

Warner, Fred Maltby

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

Warner, A. Parker

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

Ware, John D. (Wear)

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

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

Walter, O. P.

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

Walden, C. W.

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Sex: Male
  • 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

Von Tobel, Edward

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

Voligny, Alfred

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

Vogel, John C.

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

Vernon, W. H.

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

Van De Vanter, A. T.

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

Valentine, Calvin C.

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

Unruh, C. E.

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

Tutt, John W.

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • 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

Todd, C. C.

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

Tisch, Henry

  • 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

Taylor, Robert L.

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

Taylor, R. W.

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

Taylor, Harrison D.

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

Tallman, Boyd J.

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

Taggard, J. A.

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

Sweney, James

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

Swan, L. L.

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

Stone, E. B.

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

Still, J. W.

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

Stewart, Willard E.

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

Stevenson, John H.

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

Stevens, W. T.

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

Stevens, Sariah

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