Allan Pinkerton, Scottish-American detective and spy (born 1819)

Allan Pinkerton

Scottish-American detective and spy (1819–1884)

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 the plot in 1861 to assassinate then president-elect Abraham Lincoln. During the…