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	Allan Pinkerton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pinkerton was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to William Pinkerton and his wife Isabell, in 1819.
		Pinkerton died in Chicago, Illinois on July 1, 1884 as a result of infection after biting his tongue when he slipped on a sidewalk.
		Allan Pinkerton is buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Allan_Pinkerton (533 words)

	Pinkerton National Detective Agency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pinkerton National Detective Agency was a security guard agency established in the United States in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton who became famous when he foiled a plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
		Pinkerton agents were hired to track notorious western outlaws Jesse James, the Reno brothers, and the Wild Bunch (including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid).
		The Pinkerton Agency is referenced by the victim of a gold mining fraud in an attempt to persuade the perpetrator to unwind the deal in Season 1, Episode 3, of the HBO series Deadwood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pinkerton_National_Detective_Agency (467 words)

	Allan Pinkerton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Allan Pinkerton, the son of a Glasgow, Scotland, police sergeant, learned the trade of barrel making in his native country before emigrating to the United States at the age of 23.
		Pinkerton found Baltimore a hotbed of Southern sentiment and had some of its operatives infiltrate the secessionist groups in the city.
		Pinkerton and the railroad president, Samuel Felton, met with Lincoln, who had already begun the trip to Washington, in his hotel room in Philadelphia.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /SpiesRaidersAndPartisans/allanpinkerton.html (362 words)

	ALLAN PIKNERTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pinkerton was very outspoken as an abolitionist but a great deal of his activities were covert in nature.
		Pinkerton accidently discovered a counterfeit camp headquarters on an island in the middle of a lake that later became known as Bogus Island.
		Pinkerton always felt that such fee structures were not right and had long established a policy of having a set hourly, daily, and weekly fee which was explained to his clients in advance.
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	Allan Pinkerton and Larch Farm Allan Pinkerton Detective Agency Chicago
		Allan Pinkerton, founder of the internationally known Pinkerton Detective Agency, was born in Scotland, August 25, 1819, the son of a Glasgow police sergeant.
		Allan Pinkerton worked as a cooper in Chicago for a year and then moved to a Scotch community on the Fox River, at Dundee, Illinois, 38 miles northwest of Chicago, where he set up a cooper's shop.
		Pinkerton detected signs that led him to suspect the place was the lair of a band of thieves.
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	Allan Pinkerton Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He was born in Glasgow, Scotland on August 25, 1819 and emigrated to U.S. in 1842.
		In Chicago, Illinois in 1852, he formed the first detective agency, Pinkerton Agency, which solved a series of train robberies.
		He was head of US Secret Service in 1861-1862 and foiled an assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland, while guarding Abraham Lincoln on his way to his inauguration for his first term as president of the U.S. He died in Chicago, Illinois, on July 1, 1884.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/a/al/allan_pinkerton.html (134 words)

	Today in History: August 25
		Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, was born in Glasgow, Scotland on August 25, 1819.
		Pinkerton's career as a detective began by chance when he discovered a gang of counterfeiters making coins in an area where he was gathering wood.
		Pinkerton warned Lincoln of the threat, and the president-elect's itinerary was changed so that he passed through the city secretly at night.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/today/aug25.html (758 words)

	The History of Investigations
		Allan Pinkerton was born to a policeman and his wife in 1819.
		Pinkerton actually stumbled across detective work as he came across a campsite for counterfeiters, he informed the local sheriff, who in turn deputized Pinkerton and allowed him to accompany them on the raid of the criminals.
		Allan Pinkerton was detailed in his work and established what is known as the “rogues’ gallery.” This was the detailed description of known criminals, including physical characteristics, background information, companions, and hideouts.
	www.corporatecrimecontrol.com /history_of_investigations.htm (2568 words)

	Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Great Scots - A to Z - Allan Pinkerton
		Allan Pinkerton, whose agency still bears his name, cut his teeth many miles and an ocean away - in the mean streets of 19th-century Glasgow.
		Pinkerton was born in the city's tough Gorbals area in 1819.
		Pinkerton’s place in US history was assured and a host of other high-profile cases saw he and his men regarded as heroes.
	heritage.scotsman.com /profiles.cfm?cid=1&id=774452005 (763 words)

	CI Reader Volume 1 Chapter 2
		Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scottish immigrant, is best known as the founder of the Pinkerton detective agency, one of the most famous organizations of its kind.
		Pinkerton also was an important player in intelligence gathering during the Civil War years of 1861 and 1862 when he organized a system of obtaining military information in the Southern states.
		Pinkerton had received a letter from Samuel H. Felton, the president of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, warning of a plan to disrupt Lincoln's trip by destroying rail transportation between Washington, D.C. and cities in the west and north.
	www.fas.org /irp/ops/ci/docs/ci1/ch2a.htm (2964 words)

	Allan Pinkerton Biography / Biography of Allan Pinkerton Biography
		Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884) was the father of many American police detection techniques and founder of America's most famous detective agency.
		Allan Pinkerton was born in Glasgow on Aug. 25, 1819, the son of a police sergeant who was later wounded during the Chartist riots.
		In 1861 Pinkerton was investigating alleged Confederate sabotage of a railroad in Maryland when he claimed to have unearthed a scheme to assassinate the president-elect, Abraham Lincoln, then on his way to his inauguration.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-allan-pinkerton (574 words)

	ALLAN PINKERTON - LoveToKnow Article on ALLAN PINKERTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In February 1861 Pinkerton found evidence of a plot to assassinate President-elect Lincoln upon his arrival in Baltimore on his way to Washington; as a result, Lincoln passed through Baltimore at an early hour in the morning without stopping.
		In April 1861 Pinkerton, on the suggestion of General George B. McClellan, organized a system of obtaining military information in the Southern states.
		In 1869 Pinkerton suffered a partial stroke of paralysis, and thereafter the management of the detective agency devolved chiefly upon his sons, William Allan (b.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PI/PINKERTON_ALLAN.htm (373 words)

	Allan Pinkerton and his Secret Role in the Underground Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Allan Pinkerton, known for his use of the eye logo that stated “We never sleep” and gave us the term “private eye” was also a part of Underground Railroad lore.
		Allan Pinkerton was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 25 August 1819 to a police sergeant.
		Pinkerton was an abolitionist and soon his shop functioned as a "station" for escaped slaves traveling the Underground Railroad to freedom in the North.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/the_underground_railroad/114256 (595 words)

	Allan Pinkerton
		Pinkerton was born into poverty in Glasgow in 1819, the son of a policeman who could no longer work, due to injuries sustained on the job.
		Pinkerton's politics and abolitionist sympathies drew the attention of supporters of fiery Illinois lawyer and presidential incumbent Abraham Lincoln, and Pinkerton was hired to act as Lincoln's bodyguard.
		Pinkerton and his men discovered and disrupted a scheme to kill the president on the way to his inauguration, and were subsequently rewarded when Lincoln hired Pinkerton to organize the Secret Service.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /eyes/pinkerton.html (1905 words)

	wais:crime: allan pinkerton February 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Pinkerton National Detective Agency and its operatives, commonly called "Pinkertons," almost single-handedly defined the role of the private investigator, a new figure in 19th century society.
		Pinkerton was born the son of a police sergeant in Glasgow, Scotland.
		Pinkerton agents were widely criticized for their part in such labor disturbances as the 1894 Pullman Strike and the 1914 Colorado Ludlow Massacre.
	wais.stanford.edu /ztopics/week020105/crime_050201_allanpinkerton.htm (444 words)

	Allan Pinkerton
		Allan Pinkerton was born in Glasgow in Scotland in 1819.
		Pinkerton settled in Chicago and became a deputy-sheriff.
		After Allan Pinkerton died in 1884, the Pinkerton Detective Agency was run by his two sons, Robert Pinkerton and William Pinkerton.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USApinkerton.htm (265 words)

	Allan Pinkerton and His Detective Agency: "We Never Sleep"
		Allan Pinkerton, Scots born, is nevertheless a man of America, one of the USA's greatest historical assets.
		Studying Allan Pinkerton's achievements and those of the organization he shaped from its birth, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, is actually studying the history of the growth of America during its last century and a half.
		Pinkerton and his wife, as did most of the other seaward passengers, lost everything they had in the submerged hold.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters2/pinkerton (2789 words)

	The Pinkerton Foundation - Mission and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Pinkerton Foundation is an independent grantmaking foundation established in 1966 by Robert Allan Pinkerton with the broad directive to reduce the incidence of crime and to prevent juvenille delinquency.
		Robert Allan Pinkerton, a graduate of Harvard College, served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pinkerton's, Inc. for more than 35 years until his death in 1967.
		Pinkerton's, Inc. was sold in 1983, and today the Foundation retains no connection with the company.
	www.thepinkertonfoundation.org /misshist.html (144 words)

	World's first private eye set for stage - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pinkerton, the son of a Glasgow policeman, was born in 1819 and trained as a policeman in the city before emigrating to the US in 1842.
		Pinkerton's father was crippled in a riot in Glasgow, and there are a wealth of stories about his son's colourful life before he ended up in Chicago.
		Pinkerton settled in Chicago, and became deputy sheriff there and in Dundee in Illinois.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /print/news/5024007.shtml (514 words)

	Pinkerton National Detective Agency
		Allan Pinkerton emigrated from Scotland to the United States in 1842, when he was 23 years old; he soon settled in the town of Dundee, northwest of Chicago.
		By the beginning of the 1850s, Pinkerton and a partner had established the North-Western Police Agency, which had its offices at Washington and Dearborn Streets in Chicago.
		By the time Allan Pinkerton died in 1884, his sons William and Robert Pinkerton were leading the company, which had about 2,000 full-time employees and several thousand “reservists.” During the 1920s, annual revenues approached $2 million.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2813.html (388 words)

	Detective Allan Pinkerton Was Born in Glasgow, Scotland
		Detective Allan Pinkerton Was Born in Glasgow, Scotland
		One of America's first undercover agents, a Civil War scout and guardian of President Lincoln, he was Allan Pinkerton, Private Eye.
		Allan Pinkerton, born in Glasgow, Scotland, on August 25, 1819, founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/nation/pinkerto_1 (144 words)

	Allan Pinkerton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884) was the world's first private detective.
		Pinkerton guards were employed by large manufacturing companies to put down strikes.
		Pinkerton is surrounded by his family and several Pinkerton employees.
	www.graveyards.com /IL/Cook/graceland/pinkerton.html (217 words)

	Pinkerton
		Allan Pinkerton was well known to the members of the 19th Century underworld.
		They were also well acquainted with Pinkerton's tenacity; if necessary he would chase you to the end of the earth.
		Meet Pinkerton, a 1993 BLM Burro adopted on October 10, 2004! Joan's wait for a burro of her own has finally ended and she's doing the dance of joy! This guy is too cool, laid back, cuter than anything (except baby foals), Mr.
	www.mudranchkigers.com /Pinkerton.html (160 words)

	Pinkerton, Allan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		After Pinkerton’s death, the agency was continued by his sons, Robert A. Pinkerton and William A. Pinkerton, and was active in breaking the Homestead strike of 1892.
		For its role in industrial disputes on behalf of management, particularly in its use of labor spies, the agency was denounced by organized labor.
		Pinkerton wrote of his own experiences in Criminal Reminiscences and Detective Sketches (1879) and other books.
	www2.bartleby.com /65/pi/Pinkerto.html (272 words)

	Allan Pinkerton -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pinkerton was the son of a police sergeant who died when Allan was a child, leaving the family in great poverty.
		Allan found work as a cooper and soon became involved in Chartism, a mass movement that sought political and social reform.
		U.S. physicist Allan Cormack was born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9060099?&query=allan (663 words)

	MSN Encarta - Pinkerton
		Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Pinkerton came to the United States and settled near Chicago in 1842.
		While engaged in business as a barrel maker in 1846, he captured a gang of counterfeiters and was consequently elected county sheriff.
		In 1850 he organized Pinkerton's National Detective Agency and was appointed the first city detective in Chicago.
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