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  2. Allan Pinkerton - Wikipedia

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    Allan Pinkerton (August 21, 1819 – 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.

  3. Pinkerton (detective agency) - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .pinkerton .com. 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.

  4. Kate Warne - Wikipedia

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    In the meantime, she also continually coordinated Pinkerton's other female detectives in the agency. Pinkerton rented a space for Warne to work as part of her guise. Allan Pinkerton named Kate Warne one of the five best detectives that he had. Her employment by Pinkerton was a significant moment in Women's History.

  5. Corporate Spies Like Us: A Peek Into a Shadowy World - AOL

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    We get a full chapter on Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye and the founder of the sometimes-notorious detective firm that carried his name. (Since 1999, the Pinkerton Agency has been ...

  6. Alexander Gardner (photographer) - Wikipedia

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    Gardner's relationship with Allan Pinkerton, chief of the intelligence operation that would become the Secret Service, was central to promoting Brady's idea to Lincoln. Pinkerton recommended Gardner for the position of chief photographer under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Topographical Engineers.

  7. List of people from Glasgow - Wikipedia

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    Allan Pinkerton – detective; Edward William Pritchard – murderer who was publicly executed in Glasgow and was the last person to be publicly executed in Scotland; Law. Madge Easton Anderson, lawyer; Provosts

  8. The Pinkertons - Wikipedia

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    October 4, 2014. ( 2014-10-04) –. May 23, 2015. ( 2015-05-23) The Pinkertons is a Canadian Western police procedural television series which features crime cases of the Pinkerton detective agency. The show is officially licensed with the Pinkerton detective agency, [3] and features stories based on actual cases from the Pinkerton detective ...

  9. Baltimore Plot - Wikipedia

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    Baltimore Plot. The Baltimore Plot were alleged conspiracies in February 1861 to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a whistle-stop tour en route to his inauguration. Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, played a key role by managing Lincoln's security throughout the journey.

  10. 2022–23 Amateur Scottish Inter-District Championship

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    The 2022–2023 Amateur Scottish Inter-District Championship is a rugby union competition for Scotland's amateur district teams. [1] This is the fourth season of the re-instated Amateur Scottish Inter-District Championship in the professional era, and the first championship since the last professional inter-district championship of 2002–03 ...

  11. Hattie Lawton - Wikipedia

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    Hattie Lawton, also known as Hattie H. Lawton, Hattie Lewis, and Hattie Lewis Lawton was an American detective, who worked for Allan Pinkerton, of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Lawton may have been born around 1837, although most details of her life, before and after the American Civil War, are unknown. "[Hattie] Lawton was part of Pinkerton ...