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There's a problem loading this menu right now. Learn more about Amazon Prime. This later led to Pinkerton being appointed, in , as the first police detective in Chicago , Cook County, Illinois. Pinkerton's business insignia was a wide open eye with the caption "We never sleep. Pinkerton's agency solved a series of train robberies during the s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact with George McClellan , then Chief Engineer and Vice President of the Illinois Central Railroad , and Abraham Lincoln , the company's lawyer.

At those meetings, Jones, Wagoner, and Pinkerton helped purchase clothes and supplies for Brown. Jones' wife, Mary, guessed that the supplies included the suit Brown was hanged in after the failure of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in November When the Civil War began, Pinkerton served as head of the Union Intelligence Service during the first two years, heading off an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland while guarding Abraham Lincoln on his way to Washington, D.

His agents often worked undercover as Confederate soldiers and sympathizers to gather military intelligence. Pinkerton himself served on several undercover missions as a confederate soldier using the alias Major E.

He worked across the Deep South in the summer of , focusing on fortifications and Confederate plans. He was found out in Memphis and barely escaped with his life. This counterintelligence work done by Pinkerton and his agents is comparable to the work done by today's U. Army Counterintelligence Special Agents in which Pinkerton's agency is considered an early predecessor.

His work led to the establishment of the Federal secret service. Following Pinkerton's service with the Union Army , he continued his pursuit of train robbers, including the Reno Gang. He was hired by the railroad express companies to track outlaw Jesse James , but after Pinkerton failed to capture him, the railroad withdrew their financial support and Pinkerton continued to track James at his own expense.

After James allegedly captured and killed one of Pinkerton's undercover agents who was working undercover at the farm neighboring the James family's farmstead , he abandoned the chase. Some consider this failure Pinkerton's biggest defeat. In , the Spanish Government hired Pinkerton to help suppress a revolution in Cuba which intended to end slavery and give citizens the right to vote.

The Spanish government abolished slavery in and a Royal Decree abolished the last vestiges of it in Allan Pinkerton died in Chicago on July 1, It is usually said that Pinkerton slipped on the pavement and bit his tongue, resulting in gangrene. Contemporary reports give conflicting causes, such as that he succumbed to a stroke he had one year earlier or to malaria , which he had contracted during a trip to the Southern United States.

Pinkerton was a lifelong atheist. Pinkerton is buried in Graceland Cemetery , Chicago. He is a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame. After his death, the agency continued to operate and soon became a major force against the labor movement developing in the US and Canada. This effort changed the image of the Pinkertons for years.

They were involved in numerous activities against labor during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including:. Despite his agency's later reputation for anti-labor activities, Pinkerton himself was heavily involved in pro-labor politics as a young man. Allan Pinkerton was so famous that for decades after his death, his surname was a slang term for a private eye.

Pinkerton" novels, by American mystery writer Zenith Jones Brown under the pseudonym David Frome , were about Welsh-born amateur detective Evan Pinkerton and may have been inspired by the slang term.

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Pinkerton produced numerous popular detective books , ostensibly based on his own exploits and those of his agents. Some were published after his death, and they are considered to have been more motivated by a desire to promote his detective agency than a literary endeavour. Most historians believe that Allan Pinkerton hired ghostwriters , but the books nonetheless bear his name and no doubt reflect his views. The episode is set in Wichita, Kansas.

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