When the Civil War began, Pinkerton served as head of the Union Intelligence Service during the first two years, heading off an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland while guarding Abraham Lincoln on his way to Washington, D.C., as well as providing estimates of Confederate troop numbers to General George B. Pinkerton (left) with Abraham Lincoln and Major General John A. Jones' wife, Mary, guessed that the supplies included the suit Brown was hanged in after the failure of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in November 1859. At those meetings, Jones, Wagoner, and Pinkerton helped purchase clothes and supplies for Brown. In 1859, he attended the secret meetings held by John Brown and Frederick Douglass in Chicago along with abolitionists John Jones and Henry O.
McClellan, then Chief Engineer and Vice President of the Illinois Central Railroad, and Abraham Lincoln, a lawyer who sometimes represented the company.
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Pinkerton's agency solved a series of train robberies during the 1850s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact with George B. Pinkerton's business insignia was a wide open eye with the caption "We never sleep." As the US expanded in territory, rail transport increased. In 1850, he partnered with Chicago attorney Edward Rucker in forming the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co, and finally Pinkerton National Detective Agency, still in existence today as Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations, a subsidiary of Securitas AB. This later led to Pinkerton being appointed, in 1849, as the first police detective in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. After observing their movements for some time he informed the local sheriff, who arrested them. Pinkerton first became interested in criminal detective work while wandering through the wooded groves around Dundee, looking for trees to make barrel staves, when he came across a band of counterfeiters, who may have been affiliated with the notorious Banditti of the Prairie. As early as 1844, Pinkerton worked for the Chicago abolitionist leaders, and his Dundee home was a stop on the Underground Railroad. He built a cabin and started a cooperage, sending for his wife in Chicago when their cabin was complete. In 1843, he heard of Dundee Township, Illinois, fifty miles northwest of Chicago on the Fox River. Pinkerton emigrated to the United States in 1842. He was not raised in a religious upbringing, and was a lifelong atheist. A cooper by trade, he was active in the Scottish Chartist movement as a young man. Pinkerton read voraciously and was largely self-educated. He left school at the age of 10 after his father's death. Pinkerton was born in the Gorbals area of Glasgow on August 25, 1819, the son of Isobel McQueen and William Pinkerton. After the war, his agents played a significant role as strikebreakers – in particular during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 – a role that Pinkerton men would continue to play after the death of their founder.Īllan J. McClellan of the Army of the Potomac – with military intelligence, including extremely inaccurate enemy troop strength numbers.
During the Civil War, he provided the Union Army – specifically General George B. Pinkerton (Aug– 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.
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