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See also:PINKERTON, See also:ALLAN (1819–1884) , See also:American detective, was See also:born in See also:Glasgow, See also:Scotland, on the 25th of See also:August 1819. His See also:father, a sergeant of the Glasgow municipal See also:police, died in 1828 of injuries received from a prisoner in his custody. In 1842 .al]an emigrated to See also:Chicago, See also:Illinois. In 1843 he removed to See also:Dundee, See also:Kane See also:county, Illinois, where he established a See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
cooper-'See also:age business. Here he ran down a gang of counterfeiters, ,nd he was appointed a See also:deputy-See also:sheriff of Kane county in 1846 and immediately afterwards of See also:Cook county, with headquarters in Chicago. There he organized a force of detectives to See also:capture thieves who were stealing railway See also:property, and this organization See also:developed in 1852 into Pinkerton's See also:National Detective Agency, of which he took See also:sole See also:charge in 1853. He was especially successful in capturing thieves who See also:stole large amounts from See also:express companies. In 1866 his agency captured the principals in the See also:theft of $700,000 from See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams Express See also:Company See also:safes on a See also:train of the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railway, and recovered all but about $12,000 of the stolen See also:money. In See also:February 1861 Pinkerton found See also:evidence of a See also:plot to assassinate See also:President-elect See also:Lincoln upon his arrival in See also:Baltimore on his way to See also:Washington; as a result, Lincoln passed through Baltimore at an See also:early See also:hour in the See also:morning without stopping. In See also:April 1861 Pinkerton, onthe See also:suggestion of See also:General See also:George B. McClellan, organized a See also:system of obtaining military See also:information in the See also:Southern states. From this system he developed the Federal See also:secret service, of which he was in charge throughout the See also:war, under the assumed name of See also:Major E. J. See also:- ALLEN, BOG OF
- ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
- ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
- ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
- ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
- ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)
Allen. One of his detectives, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James McParlan, in 1873–1876 lived among the Molly Maguires (q.v.) in See also:Pennsylvania and secured evidence which led to the breaking up of the organization. In 1869 Pinkerton suffered a partial stroke of See also:paralysis, and thereafter the management of the detective agency devolved chiefly upon his sons, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Allan (b. 1846) and See also:Robert (1848–1907). He died in Chicago on the 1st of See also:July 1884. He published The Molly Maguires and the Detectives (1877), The See also:Spy of the See also:Rebellion (1883), in which he gave his version of President-elect Lincoln's See also:journey to Washing-ton; and See also:Thirty Years a Detective (1884).
End of Article: PINKERTON, ALLAN (1819–1884)
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