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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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Gibbons, Ella

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Responding party, holding party, respondent

Morris, Thomas

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

Overlander, Jesse

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

Isbell, William

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

Trude, Alonzo J.

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Sex: Male
  • Case role(s): Respondent, holding party

Lynch, Thomas W.

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

Kent, John T.

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

Mr. Lyons

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

Morley, Frances K.

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

Folden, Homer E.

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

Murray, J.A.

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

Stewart, J. M.

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

Bonham, R.P.

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

Prescott, Thena

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

Warren, J. F.

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

Croisan, Edward M.

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

Shead, Oliver

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

Alexander, E. (John)

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

Grebe, Louis

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

Nobes, C. J.

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

Lewis, John

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

Farleigh, Marion

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

Patterson, W. J.

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

Matthews, Maria G.

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

Kleeman, Catherine

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

Morris, E. A.

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

Heron, Edward K.

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

Spink, Caroline

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

(Sister Superior of the Saint Thomas Orphanage)

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

Field, Alexander P.

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

Tilford, J. G.

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

Miller,

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

Podrawzek, Ruth

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Responding party, respondent, holding party

Smith, E. D.

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

McCleery, James C.

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

Sullivan, John J.

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

Leidigh, George W.

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

Barnes, J. C.

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

Danbuam, Benjamin (Ben)

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

Wait, William

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

Steinspring, Ida

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

Mitchell, Robert

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

Doe, John (hc.case.ne.1413)

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

Felps, James A.

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

Curle, Richmond J.

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Sex: Male
  • Case role(s): Respondent, holding party

McAvoy, Edward C.

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

Fowler, James M.

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

Shepperd, Nancy

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

Thorpe, Frances

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

Gordon, Lena D.

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