Biography
Jake Conovaloff was a Molokan conscientious objector from Arizona imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refusing military service, he was held at Fort Leavenworth. (Documented in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection's World War I Conscientious Objectors database.) Archival note: refused to register for draft in June 1917, along with 5 others (some Molokans did register); in August were arrested & put in Prescott county jail in Arizona; …
Case
United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth