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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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Wilson, Oliver M.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1873
  • Birth place: Illinois
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Montgomery, Myra Bell

  • Birth date: April 1, 1873
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Bound party

West, Oswald

  • Birth date: May 20, 1873
  • Birth place: Canada
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Woodrough, Joseph William

  • Birth date: August 29, 1873
  • Birth place: Ohio, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney, judge

Robinson, Lafayette K.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1874
  • Birth place: Virginia, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Black
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Pollard, Charles

  • Birth date: January 1, 1874
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Petosky, Alex (Petoskey)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1874
  • Birth place: Germany
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Davis, Carrie B.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1874
  • Birth place: Illinois
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Quinnett, Minnie

  • Birth date: January 1, 1874
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Green, Edgar B.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1874
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Estes, Elmer

  • Birth date: January 1, 1874
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Taylor, George

  • Birth date: April 1, 1874
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Dykeman, King

  • Birth date: May 15, 1874
  • Birth place: New Brunswick, Canada
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention, respondent, responding party, judge

McNary, Charles Linza

  • Birth date: June 12, 1874
  • Birth place: Oregon, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent attorney, petitioner attorney

Reiter, John

  • Birth date: August 1, 1874
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White, German
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Kinney, John (John F. Kinney)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1875
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Mills, Viola

  • Birth date: January 1, 1875
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Vanderveer, George F. (George T. Vanderveer)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1875
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney

Murray, Thomas B.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1875
  • Birth place: New York
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White, Irish
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney, respondent attorney, responding party

Williams, Jane M.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1875
  • Birth place: Tennessee
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: Black
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Noonan, Marie

  • Birth date: January 1, 1875
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Moriarty, Margaret

  • Birth date: January 1, 1876
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White, Irish
  • Case role(s): Respondent

Codding, Elizabeth A.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1876
  • Birth place: Illinois
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, holding party, responding party

Borsheim, Alice Annette

  • Birth date: January 1, 1876
  • Birth place: Maryland
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Holding party, respondent, responding party

Blair, Albert A.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1876
  • Birth place: Iowa, United States
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Langley, James Weston

  • Birth date: January 1, 1876
  • Birth place: Pennsylvania
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention, judge

Adams, John

  • Birth date: February 2, 1876
  • Birth place: Georgia
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Black
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney

Murphy, John Francis

  • Birth date: October 10, 1876
  • Birth place: Maine
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent attorney, petitioner attorney

Worley, Katherine F.

  • Birth date: October 12, 1876
  • Birth place: Nebraska, United States
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Rupert, Henry

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Ohio
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Van Duesen, Charles H. (Van Deusen)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Responding party, holding party, respondent

Nesladek, Anna

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Bohemia
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Rettagliata, Johanna (Mother Superior)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Italy
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Durham, Sylvia May (Silvey May Durham)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Whitney, John P. (John B. Whitney)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Manning, Ernest T. (Ernest C.)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, authority ordering detention, holding party

Lyell, Estella

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Rupert, Emma

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Germany
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White, German
  • Case role(s): Petitioner

Bannick, Claude George (Claud)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Responding party, respondent, holding party

Horrigan, Daniel H. (Daniel H. Harrigan)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Illinois
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney

Davis, Maggie M.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: Washington Territory
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Bound party

O'Dell, Pierce H. (Prince H. O'Dell)

  • Birth date: January 1, 1877
  • Birth place: North Carolina
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Black
  • Case role(s): Bound party, petitioner

Hyde, Arthur Mastick

  • Birth date: July 12, 1877
  • Birth place: Missouri
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Authority ordering detention

Dachez, Henri (Henry Duchet/Chox)

  • Birth date: September 14, 1877
  • Birth place: Paris, France
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: French
  • Case role(s): Petitioner, bound party

Teter, Willard S.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1878
  • Birth place: Illinois
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Becker, Emma

  • Birth date: January 1, 1878
  • Birth place: Iowa
  • Sex: Female
  • Race or ethnicity: White, German
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Abeita, Louis

  • Birth date: January 1, 1878
  • Birth place: New Mexico
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Indigenous
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Smith, Henry

  • Birth date: January 1, 1878
  • Birth place: West Virginia
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Respondent, responding party, holding party

Sheldon, William Hallie

  • Birth date: January 1, 1878
  • Birth place: Unknown
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: Unknown
  • Case role(s): Bound party

Powers, Joseph F.

  • Birth date: January 1, 1878
  • Birth place: Nebraska
  • Sex: Male
  • Race or ethnicity: White
  • Case role(s): Petitioner attorney
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