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Pinkerton is an American private investigation 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.
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Allan Pinkerton (August 21, 1819 [1] – July 1, 1884) was a Scottish-American cooper, abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have foiled a plot in 1861 to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln.
Hattie Lawton, also known as Hattie H. Lawton, [1] Hattie Lewis, [2] [3] and Hattie Lewis Lawton [4] was an American detective, who worked for Allan Pinkerton, of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Lawton may have been born around 1837, [ 5 ] although most details of her life, before and after the American Civil War , are unknown.
Pryce Lewis (February 13, 1831 – December 6, 1911) was an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency and Union spy during the American Civil War.His activities in Charleston, Virginia and the surrounding area heavily assisted the Union Army during the early years of the war.
The Pinkerton Agency succeeded in suppressing the book, charging Siringo with criminal libel, and calling for his arrest and extradition to Chicago. New Mexico Governor McDonald denied the extradition request. Yet, Pinkerton was successful in getting a court order impounding the book's plates and remaining copies. [1]: 84–85
James McParland [Note 1] (né McParlan; [Note 2] 22 March 1844 [3] – 18 May 1919) was an American private detective and Pinkerton agent.. McParland arrived in New York in 1867. He worked as a laborer, policeman and then in Chicago as a liquor store owner [4] [5] until the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed his busine
He became a policeman in New York City sometime before 1850. He met Allan Pinkerton in 1853 and took a job with Pinkerton's private detective agency in 1856. [1] Webster married Charlotte Sprowles on October 23, 1841 in Princeton, New Jersey and the couple had four children, two of whom died young.