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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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Spaker, Henry

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

Hardin, Thomas B.

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

Lin, Wo

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

Revelle, W. Roger

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

Place, Victor M.

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

Scott, E. H.

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

Frerichs, Martin L.

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

Alperson, John

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

Davisson, Ira S.

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

Audens, T. J.

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

Horton, W. P.

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

Martin, H. G.

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

Fitzgerald, James M. (James J.)

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

Hawkins, E. K.

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

Foster, Fred C.

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

Roudebush, Rex S.

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

Watson, Oliver

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

Oberlies, Louis C.

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

Wilson, John

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

Hampton, Alfred

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

Smith, Fred E.

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

Mills, Edgar G.

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

Furth, Jacob

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

Crawford, James C.

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

Parker, Franklin P.

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

Sanguinette, Nathan (Sanguinetti)

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Black, White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Gahres, Charles

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

Jones, Frank H. (Frank Hartley)

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown

Smith, Arthur M.

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

Wauzer, Charles H.

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

Adams, Nicholas

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

Thuland, (C. M.)

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

Powell, Ernest R.

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

Fitch, David (David A. Fitch)

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

Noon, Henry S.

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

Craig, Leroy

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

Hannen, Emmett

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

Goldsmith , Michael

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

Gay, Wilson R.

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

Martin, William H.

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

Zitnik, Julius J.

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Moravia
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Czech
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney

Smith, Robert

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

Denison, George

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

Moodie, Albert

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

Benson, E. D.

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

San Francisco, John

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

Sellers, Albert P.

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

Vanous, Anton

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

Sam, Wong

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

Smith, C.H. (Smith, I. H.)

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