Timeline
Lifetime:
1819 -
1884
Passed: ≈
140 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Allan Pinkerton
Books by Allan Pinkerton
Expressman and the Detective
Adventure
Crime
Biography
Mystery
Detective
19th century
Mystery
Adventure
Crime
Biography
Agency
Chicago
Memoir
Railroad
Theft
Pinkerton
Express
Real-life
Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, the world's first detective agency. Though events associated with the agency after his death have tarnished th...