Biography of Allan Pinkerton
Biography of Allan Pinkerton
Jasmine Acevedo
CJS/250
April 20, 2014
Ann Meek
Biography of Allan Pinkerton
Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish that was born in August 25, 1819 in Glasgow, Scotland and died in July 1, 1884, in Chicago, Illinois. He has been well known for his career as a detective and for being a founder of a famous American private detective agency called Pinkerton Detective Agency.
As a child, Allan Pinkerton suffered the loss of his father, a police sergeant, resulting his life in poverty. He soon found a job as a cooper and later started to get involved in Chartism. Actions he took in Chartism made him receive a warrant. In 1842 he decided to fly to the United States and settle in Chicago. He opened up a cooper business a year later in the town of Dundee, Kane County. The capture of a gang of counterfeiters and many other achievements resulted in the appointment of deputy sheriff of Kane Counter in the year of 1846.
In 1850 he wanted to open a private detective agency that specialized in railway theft cases, so he decided to resign. His new business was called The Pinkerton National Detective Agency and became very well known. A few of well known cases that were taken by The Pinkerton National Detective Agency is the theft in 1866 of a $700,000 from Adams Express Company and in February 1861 in Baltimore, the thwarting of an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln.
During the Civil War, Allan Pinkerton headed an organization under a different name, E. J. Allen in order to obtain information from the military in the southern states in 1861.
After the Civil War, Allan Pinkerton continued to manage his business, The Pinkerton National Detective Agency. During 1873 and 1876, Allan Pinkerton was not doing so well with his life. One of his detectives, James McParlan, made The Pinkerton National Detective Agency fall when secured evidence revealed that a group of coal miners were terrorist.
In 1877, The Pinkerton National Detective
Jasmine Acevedo
CJS/250
April 20, 2014
Ann Meek
Biography of Allan Pinkerton
Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish that was born in August 25, 1819 in Glasgow, Scotland and died in July 1, 1884, in Chicago, Illinois. He has been well known for his career as a detective and for being a founder of a famous American private detective agency called Pinkerton Detective Agency.
As a child, Allan Pinkerton suffered the loss of his father, a police sergeant, resulting his life in poverty. He soon found a job as a cooper and later started to get involved in Chartism. Actions he took in Chartism made him receive a warrant. In 1842 he decided to fly to the United States and settle in Chicago. He opened up a cooper business a year later in the town of Dundee, Kane County. The capture of a gang of counterfeiters and many other achievements resulted in the appointment of deputy sheriff of Kane Counter in the year of 1846.
In 1850 he wanted to open a private detective agency that specialized in railway theft cases, so he decided to resign. His new business was called The Pinkerton National Detective Agency and became very well known. A few of well known cases that were taken by The Pinkerton National Detective Agency is the theft in 1866 of a $700,000 from Adams Express Company and in February 1861 in Baltimore, the thwarting of an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln.
During the Civil War, Allan Pinkerton headed an organization under a different name, E. J. Allen in order to obtain information from the military in the southern states in 1861.
After the Civil War, Allan Pinkerton continued to manage his business, The Pinkerton National Detective Agency. During 1873 and 1876, Allan Pinkerton was not doing so well with his life. One of his detectives, James McParlan, made The Pinkerton National Detective Agency fall when secured evidence revealed that a group of coal miners were terrorist.
In 1877, The Pinkerton National Detective