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Pinkerton (left) with Abraham Lincoln.Allan Pinkerton ( July 21, 1819 – July 1, 1884) was a U.S. detective. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland to William Pinkerton and his wife Isabell. Allan emigrated to the United States in 1842. In Chicago, Illinois in 1852, he formed the first detective agency, the Pinkerton Agency, which solved a series of train robberies. He was head of the U.S. Secret Service in 1861– 1862 and foiled an assassination plot in Baltimore, MarylandThis article is about the city in the US state of Maryland. For other meanings of the word "Baltimore", please see: Baltimore (disambiguation Baltimore is an independent city located in the U. State of Maryland. As of July 1, 2002, the population is 638,6, while guarding Abraham Lincoln on his way to his inauguration for his first term as president. He was so famous that for decades after his death, the word "Pinkerton" was a slangSlang is the non-standard use of words in a language of a particular social group, and sometimes the creation of new words or importation of words from another language. Slang is a type of sociolect aimed at excluding certain people from the conversation. term for a private eyePrivate eye may mean: A private investigator, a private detective for hire Private Eye a satirical magazine..
Pinkerton died in Chicago, Illinois, on July 1, 1884.
See American Civil War spiesThe most useful military intelligence of the American Civil War was probably provided to Union officers by slaves and smugglers. There were, however, conventional spies working for each side. Confederacy Thomas Jordan, a former U. Army officer who became
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