Kate Warne
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Kate Warne was an American law enforcement officer best known as the first female detective in the United States, for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. She also had a role in uncovering the 186
Warne in 1866
During the American Civil War Kate Warne traveled with her boss, Allan Pinkerton, to meet with General George B. McClellan's Ohio Division. This photo shows Pinkerton and President Lincoln at the Battle of Antietam in 1862.
Warne's grave at Graceland Cemetery
Goggles carried by Lincoln's bodyguards during his train ride through Baltimore
Allan Pinkerton
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Allan Pinkerton 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 t
Kate Warne
…Agency, and conducting intelligence work for the Union during the American Civil War. Very little is known about Kate Warne prior to her working for Allan Pinkerton, except that she was born in Erin, Chemung County, New York and was a widow by age 23. An obituary following her death described her parents as "honest…
c. 1861
Pinkerton on horseback on the Antietam Battlefield in 1862
Portrait of Allan Pinkerton from Harper's Weekly, 1884