Biography
J. A. Maxwell was a farmer from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, who received a two-year prison sentence. He was imprisoned at Leavenworth Penitentiary from August 6, 1917, to June 10, 1919. He had a wife and two children.
Sources
- American Political Prisoners: Prosecutions Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts, p. 116, note 254 (note text on p. 149). The entry cites a Department of Justice docket entry and Leavenworth record 12034. The following entry, note 255, concerns W. H. Maxwell, a different person.
- Antlers News-Record, November 9, 1917, p. 7, “Ten Years for Leaders”, lists J. A. Maxwell and W. H. Maxwell separately among those sentenced to two years.
