Allan
Pinkerton
Born in Glasgow, Scotland
Ancestors 
Son of William Pinkerton
and Isobel (McQueen) Pinkerton
Husband of
Joan (Carfrae) Pinkerton
— married
13 Mar 1842 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire ,Scotland
Descendants 
Died
at age 64
in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
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NOTE: See the Birth Record in sources, Aug 21 1819, findagrave is in error and has no sources..
Allan Pinkerton established the National Pinkerton Detective Agency
In the United States in 1850
The Agency's motto was We Never Sleep
Biography
Allan Pinkerton is Notable.
Allan Pinkerton served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: 1861
Mustered out: 1865
Side: USA
Regiment(s): Union Intelligence (Spy)
Enlisted: 1861
Mustered out: 1865
Side: USA
Regiment(s): Union Intelligence (Spy)
[1]Allan Pinkerton was born in Scotland, he started the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.The Agency caption was We never sleep.In 1861–1862 he stopped an assassination plot while protecting Abraham Lincoln.[2] He was also a spy for the Union Army in the American Civil War,and wrote a book on the subject [3]called A Spy for the Rebellion.
Allan Pinkerton
Allan Pinkerton was born on[4]August 21, 1819 in Glasgow, Scotland, his parents were William Pinkerton and Isobel McQueen. William Pinkerton was an policeman, who was removed from active service, after an injury he received while on duty. He died after being injured in a political riot in Glasgow, and Allan Pinkerton left school to help support his family.
Allan Pinkerton and Joan Carfrae eloped in Glasgow on 13 March 1842.That same year Allan and Joan Pinkerton and his mother Isobel, emigrated to the United States. He left Scotland because there was a warrant out for his arrest, because of his political activities.He and his brother Robert were involved in the[5]. Newport Rising of 1839 . They arrived in Chicago and in 1843,leaving Joan in Chicago, he moved to Dundee, Illinois, where he built a cabin after the cabin was finished,he sent for Joan.In 1844,Allan Pinkerton started working for Chicago Abolitionist leaders.[6]He started a barrel making shop ,a trade he learned in Scotland,his shop was one of the stops on the Underground Railroad.
On their 1842 wedding day to Joan Carfrae, Pinkerton and his bride boarded a ship for the United States just ahead of soldiers holding a warrant for his arrest based on his political activities. Upon his arrival in the US, he settled in Dundee, Illinois. In 1849, Pinkerton was appointed as the first detective in Chicago.
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Allan Pinkerton was the first detective in Chicago in 1849. He and Edward Rucker a Chicago attorney,formed the North Western Police Agency in 1850. This was later called Pinkerton&Co, and than Pinkerton National Detective Agency.[7]The Agency's insignia was a wide open eye with the caption We never sleep. One of the agency's job, was to solve a series of train robberies during the 1850s, this is when Allan Pinkerton first met [8]George McClellan, Vice President of the Illinois Central Railroad, and[9]Abraham Lincoln, who was the lawyer for the Railroad.
George McClellan and Abraham Lincoln
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Allan Pinkerton served in the Union Army,[10]he was head of the Union Intelligence Service froim 1861–1862, while guarding Abraham Lincoln in Baltimore, Maryland he stopped a assassination plot,on Lincoln's life.[11] Allan Pinkerton had his agents work undercover as Confederate soldiers and sympathizers,[12]to gather military intelligence. He used the alias of Major E.J. Allen in a number of undercover missions. After the war Allan Pinkerton went back to his Detective Agency and continued pursing train robbers, mainly the[13]Reno Gang and [14] Jesse James. He was hired by the railroad companies to track down James, but when Allan Pinkerton failed to capture him, the railroad no longer gave him their financial support. He continued to chase Jesse James but at his own own expense.Allan Pinkerton gave up looking for Jesse James, after he captured and killed one of the Pinkerton's undercover agents.
Frank Reno,Jesse James and John Reno
Allan Pinkerton work with his agency until[15] he died in Chicago on July 1, 1884,he is buried in Graceland Cemetery.At the time of his death, he was working on a system that would centralize all criminal identification records, a database now maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.His sons William and Robert took over the running of the Pinkerton Detective Agency.Allan Pinkerton is a[16] member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame,the agency still exists today but under a different name, Pinkerton's Inc. [17]
Allan Pinkerton headstone Graceland Cemetery
Sources
- ↑ (no longer available) .princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Allan_Pinkerton.html Princeton.edu] - Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, the first detective agency of the United States
- ↑ History.com Allan J. Pinkerton spying in the Civil War
- ↑ Archive.org - A Spy for the Rebellion by Allan Pinkerton
- ↑ Family Search- Citing this Record"Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950," index, FamilySearch, Allan Pinkerton, 21 Aug 1819; citing , reference ; FHL microfilm 1042981
- ↑ Wikipedia - The Newport Rising was the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in Great Britain when, on 4 November 1839, somewhere between 1,000 and 5,000 Chartist sympathisers, led by John Frost, marched on the town of Newport, Monmouthshire
- ↑ (no longer available) libertyparkusafd.org/lp/Lincoln/curriculum%5CAllan%20Pinkerton%20and%20his%20Secret%20Role%20in%20the%20Underground%20Railroad%201.htm Liberty Park.org] - Allan Pinkerton and his secret role in the Underground Railroad
- ↑ Ameican History - Allan Pinkerton and his Detective Agency - A Brief History of the Pinkertons by Martin Kelly
- ↑ History Learning site.co.uk - George McClellan
- ↑ CIA.Gov Library - Intelligence in the Civil War saving Abraham Lincoln
- ↑ Civil War Signals.org - THE SECRET SERVICE OF THE FEDERAL ARMIES by George H. Casamajor
- ↑ Wikipedia - Civil War Spies
- ↑ Civil War Academy - Civil War Spies
- ↑ Legends of America - Reno Gang & the 1st Big Train Robbery
- ↑ Biography - Jesse James Biography Thief, Organized Crime, Folk Hero, Murderer 1847–1882
- ↑ Find a Grave - Burial - Graceland Cemetery ,Chicago,Cook County Illinois, USA Find A Grave Memorial# 817
- ↑ Interesting America - Military Intelligence Hall of Fame, Fort Huachuca (Sierra Vista), Arizona
- ↑ Legends of America - The Pinkerton's.
- Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X17J-RMG : 10 February 2018), Allan Pinkerton, 21 Aug 1819; citing , reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,042,981.
- Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTBZ-SXF : 10 February 2018), Allan Pinkerton and Joan Carfrae, 13 Mar 1842; citing Glasgow,Lanark,Scotland, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 102,928, 1,042,987, 1,042,942, 102,927, 1,042,988, 1,042,989.
- Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGNF-T9G7 : 8 March 2018), Allan Pinkerton, 01 Jul 1884; citing Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference , record number , Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,031,455.
- Illinois Soldier Burial Places, 1774-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVY9-91S3 : 16 March 2018), Allan Pinkerton, ; citing Burial, , Cook, Illinois, United States, Graceland Cemetery, Illinois State Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,001,196.
- Civil War Home Reports of E. J. Allen Allen Pinkerton, Chief of Secret Service Division, The Peninsular Campaign, Virginia March 17-September 2, 1862
- Thrilling Detective - Allan J. Pinkerton (1819-1884)
- NPS.gov.resources - Allan Pinkerton From the Peninsula to Maryland - Pinkerton's role in the summer of 1862
- Opinionator.blogs - The Union’s Spy Game
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