People
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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Case Roles
- bound party 23
- petitioner 23
Age Category
- Adult 22
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Cases
- In the Matter of the Application John Harris for Writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Andy Pappas for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Athas Chinis for writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Athas James for writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Christ Antonopulous for writ Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Esper Evangellos for writ H. C. 1
- In the matter of the application of George Banagiotis for writ Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of George Bell for writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the Matter of the Application of George Kotros for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of George Vallas for writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Gerasimos Nicolovinis for a writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of John Batlos for writ Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of John Goumas for writ Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of John Harris for writ Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of John Strigulas for writ Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Louie Charles for writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Michel Koseris for a writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Nick Evangellos for writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Phillip Chiantis for a writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Tassos Tourtas for writ Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Theofarius George Mastoros for a writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Tom Berbilis for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Tom Boulias for writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the Matter of the Petition of Paul Kallas, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 1
23 results
Download JSON Download CSVNicolovinis, Gerasimos
- Birth date: April 23, 1892
- Birth place: Kalovata, Kepal, Greece, Greece
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Strigulas, John
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Evangellos, Nick
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Harris, John
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Evangellos, Esper
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Batlos, John
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Boulias, Tom
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Chiantis, Phillip
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Greece
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Charles, Louie
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Kallas, Paul
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Greece
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Bell, George
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Chinis, Athas
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Pappas, Andy (aliases Andy Papainon and Evangelos Doukas)
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Greece
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
James, Athas
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Birbilis, Tom (aliases George Brown, Joe Brown, and Tom Brown)
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Greece
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Banagiotis, George
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Kotros, George
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Greece
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Koseris, Michel (Micheal)
- Birth date: N.D.
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Antonopulous, Christ
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Goumas, John
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Tourtas, Tassos (Tartas)
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Vallas, George
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Mastoros, Theofanis (Mastoris)
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Greece
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Greek
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
