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Allan Pinkerton
Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish-American detective, spy, abolitionist, and cooper best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have obstructed the Baltimore Plot in 1861, preventing the assassination of then president-elect Abraham Lincoln. During the Civil War, he provided the Union Army – specifically General George B. McClellan of the Army…
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business · Scottish-American detective (1819–1884) · detective · intelligence officer · army scout · businessperson · spymaster · writer · cooper · also Allan Pinkerton, Allen Pinkerton, Alan Pinkerton, Pinkerton
Born 25 August 1819 · Died 1 July 1884 · Q365650
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2025· 1 entry
2017· 1 entry
PBS: Allan Pinkerton's Detective Agency
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1994· 1 entry
"Pinkertonova detektivní agentura" ('Pinkerton's Detective Agency, an episode of the Czech TV series Dobrodružství kriminalistiky ("The Adventure of Criminology"), was aired
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1990· 1 entry
Turner Network Television aired the 1990 speculative historical drama The Rose and the Jackal, with Christopher Reeve as Pinkerton, recounting his (completely fictional) romance with the Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Green
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1884· 1 entry
Died 1884-07-01.
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1880· 1 entry
And a Royal Decree abolished the last vestiges of it in 1886
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1872· 1 entry
The Spanish Government hired Pinkerton to help suppress a revolution in Cuba which intended to end slavery and give citizens the right to vote
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1866· 1 entry
Allan Pinkerton achieved major success by capturing a group of thieves who had stolen $700,000 from a train safe
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1861· 1 entry
Preventing the assassination of then president-elect Abraham Lincoln
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1859· 1 entry
Supported Brown by giving him $500 and a ticket on the Michigan Central Railroad to Detroit
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1857· 1 entry
The Chicago Tribune urged the city to dismiss its police chief and hire Allan Pinkerton in response to a surge in thefts throughout the city
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1850· 1 entry
Partnered with Chicago attorney Edward Rucker in forming the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co, and finally Pinkerton National Detective Agency, still in existence today as Pinkerton Consu
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1849· 1 entry
As the first police detective in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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1843· 1 entry
Heard of Dundee Township, Illinois, fifty miles northwest of Chicago on the Fox River
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1819· 2 entries
Born 1819-08-25.
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The second surviving son of William Pinkerton, a retired policeman, and Isobel McQueen; he was baptized on August 25, 1819, which many sources incorrectly give as his birthdate
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