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
c. 1861
Pinkerton on horseback on the Antietam Battlefield in 1862
Pinkerton (left) with Abraham Lincoln and Major General John A. McClernand
Portrait of Allan Pinkerton from Harper's Weekly, 1884
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
Allan Pinkerton
…to recover $688,000 of the stolen funds. Pinkerton founded an organization that was revolutionary for its time. He hired the first female detective, Kate Warne, and established core investigative principles that continue to influence modern detective work to this day. Pinkerton was known to be a friend of…
Warne in 1866
Warne's grave at Graceland Cemetery
Goggles carried by Lincoln's bodyguards during his train ride through Baltimore