Pinkerton Chevrolet, a General Motors dealership in Roanoke County near Salem, completed its acquisition of Lynchburg's Royal Chevrolet, Cadillac on Thursday. Owner Bill Pinkerton said he plans to add ...
Pinkerton became famous when he claimed to have foiled the Baltimore Plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861.
Pinkerton National Detective Agency, American independent police force founded in 1850 by Allen Pinkerton.
Allan Pinkerton founded a small law enforcement agency whose rise began during the Civil War and later became a national crime-fighting bureau.
In the deep, shadowy depths of American history, few organizations have captured the public imagination, stirring up fear and apprehension, quite like the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
Before the existence of the Secret Service and the FBI, the Pinkerton Detective Agency was America’s premier security and intelligence organization — until its reputation for violence and strikebreaking caused it to lose favor with the public.
Allan Pinkerton ( [1] – ) was a Scottish-American detective, spy, abolitionist, and cooper best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have obstructed the plot in 1861 to assassinate then president-elect Abraham Lincoln.
Allan Pinkerton was a Scottish-born detective and founder of a famous American private detective agency. Pinkerton was the son of a police sergeant who died when Allan was a child, leaving the family in great poverty.
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