Elbert H. Hostetler

Released
Date of birth:17. 03. 1889
Date of death:14. 05. 1971
Age:82† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
Inmate Number:#13405
State:Nebraska
Support
Anti-War Conscientious Objection
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Biography

Elbert H. Hostetler was a Mennonite conscientious objector from Nebraska imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. Sentenced to 20 years of hard labor in prison. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: semt to Camp Funston; transferred to Camp Cody; refused to wear uniform or to drill, but was forced to do both (drilled at Camp Cody, but not with a gun; was put in hospital for observation for a week; …

Case

United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth
Charges: Disobeying orders; refusal of military service
Incarcerated: 1918
Released: Dec 18, 1918
Sentence: Twenty-year hard-labor sentence. Archive distinguishes September22,1917 draft date from Leavenworth imprisonment in1918, giving June29 with alternatives as early as June24 or late as July15. Store1918YEAR precision with those explicit bounds; January1 is a placeholder, not admission. A November2,1918 pardon and return to CampCody are not independently proved final physical release. ExistingDecember18,1918 endpoint is preserved as archival military release, without newly asserting a full uninterrupted prison span. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pW6wsZo4it4CTtGmn_P-dwg1L0arJBfJEhwcIZlSZNQ/edit (Hostetler row949), linked by https://www1.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/conscientiousobjection/WWI.COs.coverpage.htm
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Kansas

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