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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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5957 results

Edwards, Charles P.

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

Edwards, Edna Elenor (Edna Elenor Montague)

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

Edwards, Eliza

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Birth place: Tennessee
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Edwards, J. F.

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

Edwards, Martha Adaline

  • Birth date: January 1, 1849
  • Birth place: Missouri
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Edwards, Sula

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

Edwards, William

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

Egan, Franklin M.

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

Eick, Charles

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

Eikenbary, James C.

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

Ejbert, D. J.

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

Ekstrom, Edwin

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

Elder, A. R.

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

Eliza

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

Elliot, H. S.

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Sex: Male
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Elliot, J. D.

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

Elliott, Donald C.

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

Elliott, Mrs. M.

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

Elliott, Theodore F.

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

Ellis, Elsworth

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

Ellis, F. J.

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

Ellis, Frank

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Sex: Male
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Ellis, Melinda

  • Birth date: N.D.
  • Sex: Female
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Ellison, Price

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

Ells, Lorimer

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

Ells, Theo Virginia

  • Birth date: August 1, 1905
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Ellsworth, Mary

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

Ellsworth, Mr.

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

Elroy, F.M.

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

Elsner, H.

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

Ely, J. Osborne

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

Ely, Mary C.

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

Ely, Maud

  • Birth date: January 1, 1888
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Embree,

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

Emelin, Ivan

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

Emerson,

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

Emerson, Carrico H.

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

Emerson, Daniel

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

Emerson, R.W.

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

Emerson, William

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

Emery, Charles D.

  • Birth date: May 16, 1878
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Respondent attorney, petitioner attorney, authority ordering detention

Emery, Geo. D.

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

Emery, J. C.

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

Emil, E.

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

Emory, De Wolfe

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

Emory, George Meade

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

Endres, Michael L. (M. L. Endres)

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

Engle, Eliza

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

English , James T.

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

English, James P.

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