The president-elect then evaded possible assassins in Baltimore, who were uncovered by Lincoln's head of security, Allan Pinkerton.

* July 1 – Allan Pinkerton, American detective ( b. 1819 )

* August 25 – Allan Pinkerton, American detective ( d. 1884 )

* Allan Pinkerton forms the North-Western Police Agency, later the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

Portrait of Allan Pinkerton from Harper's Weekly, 1884.

Allan Pinkerton ( 25 August 1819 – 1 July 1884 ) was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

Allan Pinkerton died in Chicago on July 1, 1884.

Most historians believe that Allan Pinkerton hired ghostwriters, but the books nonetheless bear his name and no doubt reflect his own views.

* Allan Pinkerton, in The Scotsman's Great Scots series

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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.

The chosen name, " Ravens ," alludes to the famous poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore, and is also buried there .< ref >

While the first telegraph company was the Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company, founded in 1846, it was the Montreal Telegraph Company, controlled by Hugh Allan and founded a year later, that dominated in Canada during the technology's early years.

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.

Fleming had been an auto mechanic and early aviator when his old friend Marshall Neilan recommended him to film director Allan Dwan as a good mechanic.

The semantic network was developed in the late 1950s as a theory to understand human learning and developed further by Allan M. Collins and M. Ross Quillian during the early 1960s.

His unique bowling action begins with an open-chested short run-up, and culminates with an extremely wristy release which had him mistaken for a leg-spinner early in his career by Allan Border.

A series of difficult budgets by long-time loyalist Allan MacEachen in the early 1980s did not improve Trudeau's economic reputation.

Following the 18th-century development of the novel as a literary form, in the early 19th century, Mary Shelley's books Frankenstein and The Last Man helped define the form of the science fiction novel ; later Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon.

The concept of the Semantic Network Model was coined in the early sixties by the cognitive scientist Allan M. Collins, linguist M. Ross Quillian and psychologist Elizabeth F. Loftus in various publications, as a form to represent semantically structured knowledge.

As Verne scholar William Butcher pointed out, Verne was an early admirer of Poe and his novel Cinq semaines en ballon ( Five Weeks in a Balloon ) was published within a year of his nonfiction book Edgar Poe et ses oeuvres ( Edgar Allan Poe and his Works ).

A famous early practitioner was Maud Allan who in 1907 gave a private performance of the dance to King Edward VII.

Other historic sites include homes for Edgar Allan Poe, Betsy Ross, and Thaddeus Kosciuszko, early government buildings like the First and Second Banks of the United States, Fort Mifflin, and the Gloria Dei ( Old Swedes ') Church.

Also the Esperanto work in Western countries was sometimes influenced by the Cold War: in the early 50s, the American Esperanto leader George Allan Connor denounced dissenting members of his national organization as communists.

The project didn't see development until the early 1960s, when a treatment or ' format ' for a similar idea was submitted to Universal Studios by Rocky & Bullwinkle writers Allan Burns and Chris Hayward.

Since the city's early formation, it has been home to numerous notable individuals, from historic figures Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, to literary giants Edgar Allan Poe and William Faulkner.

* Allan Spear, eminent U. S. historian and political progressive, author, Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto ; President Minnesota State Senate, early advocate for gay people.

* Basil Rathbone read the entire short story in his early 1960s Caedmon LP recording The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe.

Harpo's final presence before the public came in early 1964, when he appeared on stage with singer / comedian Allan Sherman.

Allan Sherman ( born Allan Copelon ; November 30, 1924 – November 20, 1973 ) was an American comedy writer and television producer who became famous as a song parodist in the early 1960s.

He showed a mechanical aptitude early in life ; while working as a car mechanic he met the director Allan Dwan, who took him on as a camera assistant.

Allan cut a few singles for MGM Records in the early ' 70s, continuing his association with Curb, but after that his career faltered.

A solid partnership of 71 between Allan Lamb and Neil Fairbrother left Imran with no choice but to give an early second spell to his main pacer Wasim Akram in the 35th over.

From William Allan ( afterwards Sir William Allan and president of the Royal Scottish Academy ) and John Burnet, the engraver of Wilkie's works, we have an interesting account of his early studies, of his indomitable perseverance and power of close application, of his habit of haunting fairs and marketplaces, and transferring to his sketchbook all that struck him as characteristic and telling in figure or incident, and of his admiration for the works of Carse and David Allan, two Scottish painters of scenes from humble life.