Though there were a few other detective agencies at the time, most had unsavory reputations and the Pinkerton Agency was the first to set uniform fees and establish practices that quickly earned respect for the organization.
Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. John A. McClernand, In , while investigating a railway case, the agency uncovered an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln, where conspirators intended to kill Lincoln in Baltimore during a stop on his way to his inauguration. After the war, Allan Pinkerton returned to his duties at the detective agency, which was often hired by the government to perform many of the same duties that are now regularly assigned to the Secret Service, the FBI, and the CIA.
The agency also worked for the railroads and overland stage companies, playing an active role in chasing down a number of outlaws including Jesse James , the Reno Brothers , and Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch. However, just a year later, in the autumn of , Allan suffered a paralyzing stroke that nearly killed him. However, there was rivalry between them, and the agency struggled without leadership.
At the same time, the agency began to suffer financially. Fortunes were to decrease once again for the agency when, in , Chicago suffered the Great Fire which began on the evening of October 7th. Before it burned itself out three days later, the entire business district was destroyed, including the Pinkerton buildings and many of their records. When the fire was finally extinguished, martial law was declared in Chicago and guards from the Pinkerton Detective Agency were hired to prevent looting.
When she approached Allan for assistance, he encouraged them to return to Great Britain. Offering to pay for the journey, Alice and her sons accepted his offer and sailed for Liverpool, leaving the agency entirely in the hands of Allan and his sons. Secret Service. In the hour of peril, Pinkerton uncovers and foils an assassination plot on the life of Abraham Lincoln, directing him safely through the ranks of treason to his first inauguration.
The first recorded train robbery takes place and the Pinkerton Agency is called to locate and arrest the culprits. The Pinkerton Agency begins the practice of clipping and filing newspaper stories for reference in investigations. Pinkerton guards are hired to prevent looting after the Great Fire in Chicago. With the death of Allan Pinkerton, the agency is taken over by his two sons, Robert and William.
Corporate headquarters move to downtown New York City, making a total of 45 offices. Pinkerton offices are established in Hong Kong, opening the door to operations throughout Asia. Pinkerton successfully evacuates expatriates from Indonesia during the Asian Currency Crisis. Securitas AB, the largest security services provider in the world, acquires Pinkerton.
Around , he opened the private investigation firm that became the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. The Pinkerton agency first made its name in the lates for hunting down outlaws and providing private security for railroads. During another case, she got a suspect to feed her crucial information by disguising herself as a fortune-teller. Pinkerton would later list Warne as one of the best investigators he ever hired.
Following her death in , he even had her buried in his family plot. The detective was investigating rumors that Southern sympathizers might sabotage the rail lines to Washington, D. Pinkerton immediately tracked down the president-elect and informed him of the alleged plot. With the help of Kate Warne and several other agents, he then arranged for Lincoln to secretly board an overnight train and pass through Baltimore several hours ahead of his published schedule. The president-elect arrived safely in Washington the next morning, but his decision to skirt through Baltimore saw him lampooned and labeled a coward in the press.
Meanwhile, none of the would-be assassins was ever arrested, leading some historians to conclude that the threat may have been exaggerated or even invented by Pinkerton. Allan Pinkerton and his agents at Antietam, Maryland, in October Allan Pinkerton was a staunch abolitionist and Union man, and during the Civil War, he organized a secret intelligence service for General George B.
Operating under the name E. Allen, Pinkerton set up spy rings behind enemy lines and infiltrated southern sympathizer groups in the North.
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