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Elizabeth Packard: her husband committed her; a jury found her sane
Committed for religious dissent from her husband's views
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What the record says
United States national and state register · Batch 2
- Jurisdiction / date
- Illinois, 1860–1867
- People / institutions
- Elizabeth Packard; Theophilus Packard; Jacksonville State Hospital
- Mechanism
- Family-initiated commitment under 1851 statute exempting married women from the evidence requirement
- Allegation or event
- Committed for religious dissent from her husband's views
- Finding or outcome
- JUDICIAL FINDING (1864 jury: sane); statutory reform 1867
- Label
- SUPPORTED
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1860-US-IL-PACKARD