. "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller [excerpts]. ALLAN PINKERTON, in many respects the greatest, shrewdest and most successfuldetective the world has known, accompanied President Lincoln from Springfield, Illinois,to Washington in February, 1861. The safety of the person of the President-elect was inhis care, and it would have been an impossibility for an assassin to have harmed , Pinkertons watchful eyes being upon all who approached. The agency he estab-lished is note
. "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller [excerpts]. ALLAN PINKERTON, in many respects the greatest, shrewdest and most successfuldetective the world has known, accompanied President Lincoln from Springfield, Illinois,to Washington in February, 1861. The safety of the person of the President-elect was inhis care, and it would have been an impossibility for an assassin to have harmed , Pinkertons watchful eyes being upon all who approached. The agency he estab-lished is noted for the thorough manner in which it runs down criminals, its roguesgallery is the most complete ever made. Mr. Pinkerton was born in Scotland in 1819,and died in 1884. (496). ^•^^1
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