Pinkerton is now owned (after many name changes) by a Swiss company.
Well, except for that whole Ford’s Theater thing...
Did the Pinkerton guys get too engrossed in Our American Cousin?
With a reported one third of the currency in circulation being counterfeit at the time,[13] the Secret Service was created on July 5, 1865 in Washington, D.C., to suppress counterfeit currency. Chief William P. Wood was sworn in by Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch. It was commissioned in Washington, D.C. as the “Secret Service Division” of the Department of the Treasury with the mission of suppressing counterfeiting.
The legislation creating the agency was on Abraham Lincoln’s desk the night he was assassinated.
{Things that make you go hmm}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service
My brother lived in Dundee IL until he passed three years ago. Didnt know Pinkerton had a connection.
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“they moved to a small town called Dundee, some 40 miles from Chicago”
The only thing of note that I knew about Dundee before this is that it was the site of the old “Santa’s Village” theme park. Since that park closed, the whole town could have disappeared for all anybody would notice.
My Dad worked for Pinkerton briefly in 1949 at the Bon Marche coffee shop in Seattle - he was an undercover dishwasher spying on the manager who was suspected of embezzlement.