Biography of Allan Pinkerton Allan Pinkerton’s History 7/24/2011 Axia College Debbie Dennis Allan J. Pinkerton was born in Glasgow, Scotland on August 25, 1819 and died in Chicago, Illinois on July 1, 1884 at the age of 64. He was the son of a police sergeant that was disabled due to work related injuries. Pinkerton began to work as an apprentice barrel maker to support the family, but a short while later joined a political group (Chartist Movement) dedicated to improve work conditions for the poor. On the run, Pinkerton at the age of 28, and his new bride of only one day fled to Canada in 1842, where a shipwreck off the coast of Nova Scotia left them without any means supporting themselves. He then for a year began to work as cooper for a brewery in Chicago, though still dreaming of starting his own business.
Ford set off at the age of sixteen to the nearby town of Detroit, Michigan to work as a machinist apprentice during this time he was introduced to the small combustion engine. In 1882, Henry finished his apprenticeship and was a full fledge machinist. After three years he went back home working only part time for Westinghouse Engine Company, which hired him to demonstrate steam engines on nearby farms, and in his spare time he worked at his machine shop he opened on his family's property. During the winter months he would work in his shop building steam engines. Henry believed that machines could be developed to make farming easier.
When he was seven, his dad died and a few years later the family moved to the poverty-stricken west side of Detroit (Unknown, 2012). He was keenly aware that his father’s death was directly related to the working conditions on the job in the town’s coal mines and never forgot the pain and hardships it caused. Hoffa began taking on odd jobs and continued this practice when he moved with his mother and three siblings to Detroit in 1924 (A Worker's Hero, 2012). Jimmy dropped out of school at 14 to work, spending his teen years unloading box cars and trucks. By age 19, he was working at Kroger Grocery’s produce warehouse where, despite being on call from 12-14 hours, he and the other
Allan Pinkerton Biography Enchandrel Malone CJ/250 January 7, 2012 Patrick Coughlin, JD Allan Pinkerton Biography Allan was born August 25, 1819 in Gorbals Glasgow, Scotland to William Pinkerton and Isobel McQueen. (Allan Pinkerton.2002) Allan’s father was a handloom weaver who later worked as a jailer in Glasgow. (Hunt, 2009) When Pinkerton was 10 his father died while on duty. As Allan became older he learned a trade through apprenticeship, where he became a cooper and made barrels for a living. At the age of 23 he became active in the British Chartist Movement.
Papaw didn't want to be a coal miner so he dropped out of hihgh school and joined the army for two years. After his discharge he and Grandma Rita knew they didn't want to live around the mines. So like lots of other young couples they took off to earn a living in Washington, D.C. Papaw decided he wanted to be a police officer and was accepted into the police academy. He became a park police in Prince Georges County in Maryland. I remember him telling me about the Martin Luther King riots that happened in Washington, D.C. on April 4, 1968.
born in Galesburg,Illinois,on January 6, 1878 to illiterate parents. His was the son of August and Clara Sandburg. His parents had emigrated to America from the north of Sweden. Eager to be brought into the American society, he [Americanized] his name from Carl to Charles.He formaly graduated from the eight grade, and at the age of thirteen he left school and began driving a milk wagon. He mostly worked as a field laborer, factories, newsboy, bottle washer, potter’s assistant, icehouse worker, painters apprentice and odd jobs to support himself.
It was in this period that Bonhoeffer produced his book “The Cost of Discipleship” and that Bonhoeffer first became widely known. In 1938, his brother-in-law, Hans von Dohnanyi, introduced him to the group seeking to Overthrow Hitler. Bonhoeffer continued his work for the resistance movement under the cover of his employment in Germany's Military Intelligence Department, which was a centre of the resistance. In 1942 he flew to Sweden to tell British government the conspirators' proposals for a peace; these proposals were unfortunately rejected. Bonhoeffer was arrested on April 5, 1943, and imprisoned in Berlin.
15) went by the name of John Roebling. Roebling was the engineer and designer of the bridge, long after his discovery of how you could work wire into cable to create suspension bridges. Roebling came to design suspension bridges through his earlier work on canals. Trained as an engineer at Berlin's Royal Polytechnic Institute, Roebling immigrated to the United States in 1831, helping to settle the farming community of Saxonburg in western Pennsylvania. After doing that he moved on from there and went to work for the rail road where he became troubled by their reliance on dangerously breakable hemp rope, in about 1839, Roebling turned his efforts toward the manufacture of strong but flexible wire rope as an alternative.
Peter Palchinsky: Ghost of the Executed Engineer The background story of this case is something we need to fully analyze to explain the ethics that will be incorporated in this case. Peter Palchinsky was the oldest of five children, his mother encouraged him to read from a library his family inherited. The library gave him a large interest in science at an early age, in the fall of 1893 he join the Mining Institute in St. Petersburg. Palchinsky was later hired to investigate the working and the living conditions they had in the coal mines, when asked about the conditions his criticism was not taken well. The Socialist Revolutionary Party was a group Palchinsky was highly interested in, though no one knew whether he was actively involved with any movements, or if he was just a sympathizer.
His father Herman Einstein was an Engineer while his mother was called Pauline Einstein. His father and uncle owned a company which produces electrical equipments which were based on dc (direct current). Albert studied his primary and secondary at Germany and also obtained teaching training in Switzerland. He obtained a PhD at a young age of 26 and was a professor at age 30. Einstein had some difficulty finding a job but he later found a job to work as a patent Clerk, He later Lectured at many Universities.