Biography of Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton was born on August 25, 1819 in Glasgow, Scotland. When Allen became a US citizen he decided to become a member of Chartists which, was a political group that were advocates abolishment of slavery, better wages, and women rights. He was also, a well-known for Scottish detective and founder of the famous American private detective agency. Allen founded a detective agency called “The Northwest Police Agency” in 1850. One of his great accomplishments was when he was able to capture Rose O’Neal Greenhow who, was confederate spy.
Pinkerton remained an abolitionist, someone not in favor of slavery. His activities quickly headed to an arrest warrant in 1842 which triggered him to run to the United States. Immediately after arriving in the United States Allan Pinkerton settled in Chicago Illinois and a year later he transferred to a town close by called Dundee. Dundee Pinkerton established his personal barrel making shop. Meanwhile, Pinkerton was in opposition to slavery he additionally made his shop purposes as a station for slave’s that were hiding for the reason that they had fled through the Underground Railroads (Bio.
Biography of Allan Pinkerton Sheryl Howard CJS/250 Jerry Maloon Biography of Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton was born on August 25, 1819, in Glasgow, Scotland. Pinkerton founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Pinkerton was an established author and detective during his time. Pinkerton’s detective agency stopped a plot aimed at President Abraham Lincoln while working for the Union during the Civil War. (Pinkerton, 2012) At the age of thirty-five Pinkerton was deputy to the Cook County, Chicago sheriff.
Allan was still up no good but it wasn’t for long that he would then become a police officer. While Allan was up to no good he found a gang that was counterfeiting which Allan captured these criminals while he was a police officer. By capturing the counterfeiters he became deputy sheriff for the county that he lived in. Four years later Allan Pinkerton decided that he would resign as a police officer and begin to organize a private detective agency and specialize in railway theft cases. Allan Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency became a well-known and famous organization ("Allan Pinkerton ", 2013).
In 1850, Pinkerton founded the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and contracted with a variety of businesses and employed a group of individuals who were assigned to work the night shift as night watchmen to protect these businesses. The group was known as the "Pinkerton Protective Patrol". This was the start of Pinkerton's security business. Part of Pinkerton's plan was to document any criminal offense, liabilities and security issues that
Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks in 1924. Clarence’s upbringing meant he was surrounds by freedom fighters and free thinkers. Clarence's father was an ardent abolitionist and a proud iconoclast and religious freethinker, known in town as the "village infidel." Emily Darrow was an early supporter of female suffrage and a women's rights advocate, so Clarence was taught to hold very strong moral ethics from an early age. It was these moral which then forced Darrow to quit corporate law and help the people, he began practicing labor law and in 1894 Darrow represented Eugene V. Debs, the leader of the American Railway Union, who was prosecuted by the federal government for leading the Pullman Strike of 1894.
Biography of Allen Pinkerton Name CJS/250 Date Professor Biography of Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton was born in 1819, in Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland. At the age of 23, he emigrated to the United Stated, in 1842 ("Allen Pinkerton. Biography", 2012). Once settle in Dundee, Illinois, Pinkerton became the first detective to be appointed in Chicago that formed the North-Western Police Agency assisted by attorney Edward Rucker, which later became Pinkerton National Detective Agency, which exist today but known as Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations ("Allen Pinkerton. Biography", 2012).
John Ericsson John Ericsson (July 31, 1803 – March 8, 1889) was a Swedish-American inventor and mechanical engineer, as was his brother, Nils Ericson. He was born at Langbanshyttan in Varmland, Sweden, but primarily came to be active in England and the United States. He is remembered best for designing the steam locomotive Novelty (in partnership with engineer John Braithwaite) and the ironclad USS Monitor. John's and Nils's father Olaf Ericsson who worked as the supervisor for a mine in Värmland had lost money in speculations and had to move his family from Värmland to Forsvik in 1810. There he worked as a 'director of blastings' during the excavation of the Swedish Göta Canal.
Thomas Jennings 1791-1856 Thomas Jennings, born in 1791, was the first African American to be given a patent, on March 3, 1821. Thomas Jennings was awarded his patent for a dry cleaning process (U.S. patent 3306x). At the time, he was operating a dry cleaning business in New York City, and was heavily involved in abolitionist activities. The patent was for a dry-cleaning process called "dry scouring", and he used the initial money he earned from it to purchase freedom from slavery for his family. In 1831, Thomas Jennings became assistant secretary for the First Annual Convention of the People of Color in Philadelphia, PA. Thomas Jennings was a free man when he took out his patent, otherwise he might have had trouble obtaining the patent in his name.
Douglas also started his campaign out strong on July 9, 1858 in Chicago. He had just returned from his Senate seat where he was arguing against the admittance of Kansas as a slave state under the Lecompton