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* Allan Pinkerton ( 1819 – 1884 ), who achieved fame in the United States by establishing Pinkerton's detective agency.
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The president-elect then evaded possible assassins in Baltimore, who were uncovered by Lincoln's head of security, Allan Pinkerton.
* Allan Pinkerton forms the North-Western Police Agency, later the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
Allan Pinkerton ( 25 August 1819 – 1 July 1884 ) was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
Most historians believe that Allan Pinkerton hired ghostwriters, but the books nonetheless bear his name and no doubt reflect his own views.
Allan Pinkerton, an early American private investigator, with Abraham Lincoln and John Alexander McClernand
In the U. S., the Pinkerton National Detective Agency was a private detective agency established in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton.
Allan Pinkerton hired Kate Warne in 1856 as a private detective, making her the first female private detective in America.
Allan and 1819
" Das Fräulein von Scuderi ", an 1819 short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which Mlle de Scudery establishes the innocence of the police's favorite suspect in the murder of a jeweller, is sometimes cited as the first detective story and a direct influence on Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ".
Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, the third of eight children of Allan and Maria Gansevoort Melvill.
In 1819, Alexander Allan had founded the Allan Shipping Line, which became synonymous with running goods and passengers between Scotland and Montreal.
Other notable poets to emerge in the early and middle 19th century include Ralph Waldo Emerson, ( 1803 – 1882 ), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1807 – 1882 ), John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807 – 1892 ), Edgar Allan Poe ( 1809 – 1849 ), Oliver Wendell Holmes ( 1809 – 1894 ), Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 ), James Russell Lowell ( 1819 – 1891 ), and Sidney Lanier ( 1842 – 1881 ).
His proficiency was recognised when he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1819, having been proposed by Thomas Allan, Leonard Horner and Sir David Brewster and as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1822.
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Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.
* 1946 – Allan Holdsworth, English guitarist and composer ( UK, The Tony Williams Lifetime, HoBoLeMa, and Tempest )
After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).
* 1857 – " The Spirits Book " by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.
Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.
Various linguists have seen these North Eurasian languages as part of: < ul >< li > a Ural – Altaic language family ( popular until 1960s )</ li >< li > a Uralic and an Altaic family ( Anna V. Dybo | Dybo, Roy Andrew Miller | Miller, Nicholas Poppe | Poppe )</ li >< li > separate Uralic, Turkic languages | Turkic and Mongolian language | Mongolian families ( Gerard Clauson | Clauson, Gerhard Doerfer | Doerfer, Stefan Georg | Georg )</ li >< li > a Eurasiatic or Nostratic macrofamily ( Joseph Greenberg | Greenberg, Sergei Starostin | Starostin, Allan Bomhard | Bomhard )</ li ></ ul >
Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe ; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 ) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.
The Spring Garden home, where the author lived in 1843 – 1844, is today preserved by the National Park Service as the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site.
* 1798 – Sir Allan Napier MacNab Bt, Canadian politician, Premier of the Province of Canada ( d. 1862 )
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