Jacob Wipf

Released
Date of birth:28. 09. 1888
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:South Dakota
Time Imprisoned:
10 Months 19 Days
Support
Anti-War Conscientious Objection
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Biography

Jacob Wipf, a Hutterite from the Rockport Colony in South Dakota and brother-in-law of the Hofers, was the fourth of the Hutterite absolutists court-martialed in 1918 and sentenced to twenty years hard labor. Tortured at Alcatraz and imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth, he outlived the two Hofer brothers who died there and was released in the spring of 1919. The four men's ordeal spurred a wave of Hutterite emigration to Canada.

Case

United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth
Charges: Refusing all military service as a Hutterite conscientious objector during World War I.
Incarcerated: May 25, 1918
Released: Apr 13, 1919
Sentence: Twenty years hard labor; released from Fort Leavenworth on April 13, 1919. Verdict as recorded: Yes — court-martialed and sentenced to twenty years hard labor.
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: Kansas

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