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Pinkerton is an American private investigation and security company established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
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Allan Pinkerton (August 21, 1819 [1] – July 1, 1884) was a Scottish-American cooper, abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have foiled a plot in 1861 to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln.
Hattie Lawton, also known as Hattie H. Lawton, [1] Hattie Lewis, [2] [3] and Hattie Lewis Lawton [4] was an American detective, who worked for Allan Pinkerton, of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Lawton may have been born around 1837, [ 5 ] although most details of her life, before and after the American Civil War , are unknown.
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He sat on the Boards of Directors of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Harp & Eagle, the Pinkerton Foundation, the Foundation for Cultural Review, the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise and the Clare Booth Luce Fund. [2] He was a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. [2]
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He became a policeman in New York City sometime before 1850. He met Allan Pinkerton in 1853 and took a job with Pinkerton's private detective agency in 1856. [1] Webster married Charlotte Sprowles on October 23, 1841 in Princeton, New Jersey and the couple had four children, two of whom died young.