The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . eventh,forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth,fifty-first, and fifty-second con-gresses. He married, in 1865, Morton. Both as a state andnational legislator Capt. Turnerhas ranke
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . eventh,forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth,fifty-first, and fifty-second con-gresses. He married, in 1865, Morton. Both as a state andnational legislator Capt. Turnerhas ranked as an unquestionedleader. In every deliberativebody he has held a signal and T^commanding influence due to llmmarked ability, thorough equi-poise of temper, rigid justice,well-balanced judgment, and animmovable honesty and firmnesstempered with unvarying polite-ness. His views as a legislatorwere always heard with pro-found attention, his colleagues showing undisguisedeagerness to hear him, and his position as a ruledecided a measure. In the Georgia General As-sembly of 1879 he was the chief manager in theimpeachment trial of several of the state officials, whowere charged with the unlawful use of public money,which trial, on account of the prominence of the de-fendants, was historical. A sound and safe publicman, he has held popular trust at home, and con-spicuous influence in state and national lyiU^n^C-. 208 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA PINKERTON, Allan, founder of PinkertonsNational Detective Agency, was born of liumbleparentage in tlie Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland, , 1819. His father, William Piukerton, was asergeant of police in the Glasgow Police Force, andwas for many years an invalid from the effects ofinjuries leceived in the Glasgow riots when AllanPinkerton was quite a small boy. William Pinker-ton died in 1833, leaving Allan and his brotherRobert as the main support of their widowed moth-er. The first employment of Allan Pinkerton wasas an errand boy f
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