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From our roots serving as an intelligence agency during the Civil War, Pinkerton has continued to build an impressive track record establishing the first criminal database, being the first company to hire a female detective, and being a forerunner for the secret service.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: With Jill Scott, Anika Noni Rose, Lucian Msamati, Desmond Dube. Precious Ramotswe launches the first-ever female detective agency in Botswana. She embarks on various adventures while investigating cases and must also overcome several challenges in her quest.
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Mar 11, 2024 · Established in Chicago by Allan Pinkerton circa 1850, the Pinkerton Detective Agency was America's first of its kind, specializing in train robbery cases — and it still exists today. From the Civil War to the Wild West, the Pinkerton Detective Agency played a fascinating role in American history.
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- Its Founder Became A Detective by accident.
- The Pinkertons Inspired The Term 'Private Eye.'
- They Hired The Nation’S First Female Detective.
- The Pinkertons May Have Foiled An Assassination Attempt on Abraham Lincoln.
- They Spied For The Union Army During The Civil War.
- The Pinkertons Created One of The World’S Earliest Criminal Databases.
- The Pinkertons Warred with Jesse James and His Gang.
- They Played A Role in 1892’S Infamous Homestead Mill Strike.
- The Pinkertons Were Once Larger Than The U.S. Army.
- The Agency Still Exists today.
In 1842, Allan Pinkerton immigrated to the Chicago area and opened a cooperage or barrel-making business. His detective career began just five years later, when he stumbled upon a band of counterfeiters while scrounging for lumber on an island in the Fox River. The Scotsman conducted informal surveillance on the gang and was hailed as a local hero ...
The Pinkerton agency first made its name in the late-1850s for hunting down outlaws and providing private security for railroads. As the company’s profile grew, its iconic logo—a large, unblinking eye accompanied by the slogan “We Never Sleep”—gave rise to the term “private eye” as a nickname for detectives.
In 1856, 23-year-old widow Kate Warne walked into Pinkerton’s Chicago office and requested a job as a detective. Allan Pinkerton was hesitant to hire a female investigator, but he gave in after Warne convinced him that she could “worm out secrets in many places to which it was impossible for male detectives to gain access.” True to her word, Warne ...
Shortly before Abraham Lincoln’s first inauguration in March 1861, Allan Pinkerton traveled to Baltimore on a mission for a railroad company. The detective was investigating rumors that Southern sympathizers might sabotage the rail lines to Washington, D.C., but while gathering undercover intelligence, he learned that a secret cabal also planned to...
Allan Pinkerton was a staunch abolitionist and Union man, and during the Civil War, he organized a secret intelligence service for General George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac. Operating under the name E.J. Allen, Pinkerton set up spy rings behind enemy lines and infiltrated southern sympathizer groups in the North. He even had agents intervie...
One of the many ways the Pinkertons revolutionized law enforcement was with their so-called “Rogues’ Gallery,” a collection of mug shots and case histories that the agency used to research and keep track of wanted men. Along with noting suspects’ distinguishing marks and scars, agents also collected newspaper clippings and generated rap sheets deta...
During the era of frontier expansion, express companies and railroads often employed the Pinkertons as Wild West bounty hunters. The agency famously infiltrated the Reno gang—perpetrators of the nation’s first train robbery—and later chased after Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch. The Pinkertons usually got their man, but in the 1870s, they spent mo...
Along with their exploits in the Wild West, the Pinkertons also had a more sinister reputation as the paramilitary wing of big business. Industrialists used them to spy on unions or act as guards and strikebreakers, and detectives clashed with workers on several occasions. During an 1892 strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Worke...
After Allan Pinkerton died in 1884, control of his agency fell to his two sons, Robert and William. The company continued to grow under their watch, and by the 1890s, it boasted 2,000 detectives and 30,000 reserves—more men than the standing army of the United States. Fearful that the agency could be hired as a private mercenary army, the state of ...
By the early 20th century, the Pinkertons’ crime-fighting duties had largely been absorbed by local police forces and agencies like the FBI. The company lived on as a private security firm and guard service, however, and still operates today under the shortened name “Pinkerton.”
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Pinkerton is a private security guard and detective agency 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.
Jan 17, 2024 · The Pinkerton Detective Agency, renowned for its wartime espionage, also earned infamy in the post-Civil War era as relentless trackers of America's most wanted.
