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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.
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.
Pinkertons and militia at Homestead, 1892 – One of the first union busting agencies was the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which came to public attention as the result of a shooting war that broke out between strikers and three hundred Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike of 1892. When the Pinkerton agents were withdrawn, state ...
1875–1880; 1888 Sheriff Pima County Arizona Charles Sims: No image available: 1879–1945 Town Marshal Rosedale, Oklahoma: Charlie Siringo: 1855–1928 Pinkerton detective Sam Sixkiller: No image available: 1842–1886 Captain, U.S. Indian Police, Indian Territory; Deputy U.S. Marshal, Indian Territory: John Slaughter: 1841–1922
As the Pinkertons crossed the grounds of the mill, the crowd formed a gantlet through which the agents passed. Men and women threw sand and stones at the Pinkerton agents, spat on them and beat them. Several Pinkertons were clubbed into unconsciousness. Members of the crowd ransacked the barges, then burned them to the waterline. [46]
The Pinkertons loom large as virtual adversaries in Red Dead Redemption 2, but now they're involved in a very real legal tussle over the game. Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations has sent ...
Cover of A Texas Cow Boy. In 1886, Siringo witnessed the Chicago Haymarket affair.This prompted him to join the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, using gunman Pat Garrett's name as a reference to get the job, having met Garrett in 1880 when they were searching for Billy the Kid.
James McParland [Note 1] (né McParlan; [Note 2] 22 March 1844 [3] – 18 May 1919) was an American private detective and Pinkerton agent.. McParland arrived in New York in 1867. He worked as a laborer, policeman and then in Chicago as a liquor store owner [4] [5] until the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed his busine