Pinkerton[note 1] is an American private investigation agency and security company established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
Long before there was a Federal Bureau of Investigation, there was the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Check out 10 little-known facts about the detective agency that helped usher in the ...
Allan Pinkerton founded a small law enforcement agency whose rise began during the Civil War and later became a national crime-fighting bureau.
Pinkerton National Detective Agency, American independent police force that was founded in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton (1819–84), former deputy sheriff of Cook county, Illinois. It originally specialized in railway theft cases, protecting trains and apprehending train robbers.
Pinkerton was a masterful publicist, spinning his agency’s real-life adventures into legend through the new medium of dime novels; he wrote more than seventeen books in just nine years. But in 1884, Allan Pinkerton died, both unexpectedly and bizarrely, biting his tongue in a fall and later perishing from gangrene.
Allan Pinkerton ( [1] – ) 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 plot in 1861 to assassinate then president-elect Abraham Lincoln. During the Civil War, he provided the Union Army – specifically General George B ...
We trace our roots back to 1850, when Allan Pinkerton founded Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency. During our rich history, we’ve created the forerunner to the U.S. Secret Service, hired America’s first woman detective, and have remained the industry leader in developing innovative security and risk management solutions for national and international organizations.
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Al Pinkerton (fl. 2024–present), British politician and academic Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884), Scottish-American detective and spy, founder of what would become the Pinkerton National Detective Agency Bill Pinkerton (born 1932), Scottish football goalkeeper Brian Pinkerton (fl. 2004–present), American fiction author David Pinkerton (1836–1906), New Zealand politician Godfrey Pinkerton ...
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