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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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Cases
- Chung Him and Seid Yam v. Henry M. White 3
- In the Matter of the Application of Sam Hop and Chinese subjects, for Writs of Habeas Corpus 3
- In the Matter of the Application of Chin Quock Wah for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2
- In the Matter of the Application of Gin Kato for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2
- In the Matter of the Application of Ichitaro Akagi for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2
- In the Matter of the Application of Iwamatsu Matsuro for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2
- In the Matter of the Application of Jow Mun Fuey for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2
- In the Matter of the Application of Junichi Yamamoto for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2
- In the Matter of the Application of Margaret Roy, for a writ of habeas corpus 2
- In the Matter of the Application of Matoba Watari for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2
- In the Matter of the Application of Moy Hing Hun for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2
- In the matter of the application of Ng Key Tung for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2
- In the matter of the application of Ng Kwack Kang for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2
- In the Matter of the Application of Nishikawa Mamoru for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2
- In the Matter of the Application of Sam Gum, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2
- In the Matter of the Application of Teramoto Sadishige for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2
- In the Matter of the Application of Tsunetaro Machida, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2
- In the Matter of the Application of Wu Kao (Ng Go) for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2
- In the Matter of the Petition of Lee Suey, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 2
- In Re Osip on Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of application of K. Gregory, et al. for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of application of William Richter, Helena Richter, his wife, and Albert Wilhelm Richter, their minor child, for writs of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of Henri Dachez on Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application for a Writ of Habeas Corpus for Gwoo Shee Ah Look 1
- In the matter of the application of Alex Kisil, for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the Matter of the Application of Alfonso Gagliardi for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Antonia Bisegna for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Arthur B. Martin for a writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the Application of Bartholomeo Massulo, for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Carl Berg for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Celia Berg O'Neill for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the Matter of the Application of Charles Jackson for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the Matter of the Application of CHIN HING, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus. 1
- In the Matter of the Application of Chin Sheung Wing for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the Matter of the Application of Chin Wah Hing, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus for Chin Doe Tung 1
- In the matter of the application of Edwin Ekstrom, for a writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Elsie Miller Dickinson for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Frank Sulak, for a 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 Gussie Goldman Woods for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Hisayo Kuwahara for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the Matter of the Application of Hosaye Sakaguchi, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Itchitara Matsutsuyu to be released on Habeas Corpus. 1
- In the Matter of the Application of Janet MacKay, formerly Janet Roy, for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Joe Martin, for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of John Lievo, for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the Matter of the Application of John Matthews for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the Matter of the Application of Joseph Hansen for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the Matter of the Application of Kunijiro Toguchi for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Marie Robina Grayson for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Martin DeWall for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Mary Peterson for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Mike Oumpu, for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Moy Share Park for a writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Peter Williamson Merta, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Rudolph Tschahle for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Sam Plastino for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Taka Shibata for a writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Tom Weber, for a writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the Matter of the Application of Vincenzo Ubaldino for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of William Reitman for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the Matter of the Application of Yaichiro Goto, otherwise known as Yaichiro Matsuo, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- In the matter of the application of Yo You Jam, for a writ of habeas corpus. 1
- In the matter of the deportation of James Douglas, "an alien" 1
- In the Matter of the Petition of Albert H. Young and Kamasaburo Sugiura, alias B.D. Sugiura, aliens, for WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS. 1
- In the matter of the petition of Hiura, Teiichi for a writ of habeas corpus 1
- In the matter of the petition of Kichitaro Kubota and Ise Kubota, his wife, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus 1
- Nora Sullivan v. Henry M. White 1
24 results
Download JSON Download CSVHim, Chung (Jung Him)
- Birth date: January 1, 1855
- Birth place: China
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Chinese
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Kato, Gin
- Birth date: January 1, 1860
- Birth place: Japan
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Asian, Japanese
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Yam, Seid (Seid Yim)
- Birth date: January 1, 1861
- Birth place: China
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Chinese
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Kao, Wu (Ng Go)
- Birth date: January 1, 1880
- Birth place: China
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Asian
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Suey, Lee
- Birth date: January 30, 1885
- Birth place: United States, Oregon
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Asian
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Yamamoto, Junichi (Junichi Hiroshi)
- Birth date: December 22, 1890
- Birth place: Japan
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Asian, Japanese
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Ng, Kwack Kang (Ng Kg Kwock Teun)
- Birth date: August 15, 1899
- Birth place: China
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Asian
- Case role(s): Petitioner
Ichitaro, Akagi
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Japan
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Asian, Japanese
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Hop, Sam
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Chinese
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Nishikawa, Mamoru
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Japan
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Asian, Japanese
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Iwamatsu, Matsuro
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Japan
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Asian, Japanese
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
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
Roy, Margaret
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Scotland
- Sex: Female
- Race or ethnicity: White
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Moy, Hing Hun
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: China
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Asian
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Wah, Chin Quock
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Asian
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Beecher, H. F.
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Unknown
- Case role(s): Respondent, holding party, responding party
Jow, Mun Fuey
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Asian
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Ng, Key Tung
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: China
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Asian
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound 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
Teramoto, Sadishige
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Japan
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Japanese, Asian
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Matoba, Watari
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Japan
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Asian, Japanese
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
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
Gum, Sam (NG Yam)
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: China
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Asian
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
Tek, Ali
- Birth date: N.D.
- Birth place: Unknown
- Sex: Male
- Race or ethnicity: Chinese
- Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party
