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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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Cook,

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

Clark, Anderson W.

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

Kingery, Sadie

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

Tompkins, W. F.

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

Cowing, Warren B. (Senior)

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

Doe, John (hc.case.ne.0571)

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

Simpson, Ed

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

Prine, William H.

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

Warden, Elizabeth

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

Brasher, William M.

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

Thomas, Mary L.

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

Davis, E. F.

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

Willard, "Mr."

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

Clopper, John

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

Wolbrecht, George

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

Jacobsen, Florence

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

Byrd, Lewis

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

Patton, Al (Alvin Patten)

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

Raridan, Robert D.

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

Alvord, William

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

Schiek, John L.

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

Boyle, John M.

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

Gates, Jasper

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

Leaper,

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

Reed, C. A.

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

Miller, Ira

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

Armistead, L. A.

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

Bassett, William E.

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

Bauer, Bess (Bess M. Bauer)

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

Lyon, Mary E.

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

Smith , J.R.

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

McDonald, John W.

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

Sigwart, A. T.

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

Weeks, Florence Bell

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

Hee, Chin Tai

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

Montague, John B.

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

Drury, Corey (Cory Drewry)

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

Hamilton, Thomas J.

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

Sutton, Thomas L.

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

McCalla, D. H.

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

Leaper, George

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

Nelson, Edna

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

Gross, Minnie

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

McCumber, A.L.

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

(Mother Superior of the House of the Good Shepherd),

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

Henry, Charles

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

Loesch, Minnie

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

Cook, Henry C.

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

Marketan, John

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

Doe, John

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