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PINTARD

he enj^ged in the cooi>er's trade, was active in tlio Al>ulilit)n nioveinent. hiu-ame dei>uty sheriff of Kane county. III., in ISIO. and subsecjuently of Cook county, returning to Chicago to hve. He organized a detective force for the purpose of capturing railroail thieves in 1850, which grew into Piukertoirs National Detective Agency. His recovery of $40,000 stolen from the Adams ex- press company at Montgomery, Ala., and the discovery of a plot to assivssinate Abraham Lincoln in lyno. gave him a national reputation. He was the first si)ecial U.S. mail agent for northern Illinois and Indiana and southern Wisconsin ; organized the U.S. secret service division of the army in 1861. and was appointed its chief by President Lincoln, and subsequently organized and served as chief of the secret service, depart- ment of tiie Gulf. He established an office in New York city in 1SG.5. and another in Phila- delpliia in 18GG, and in the course of liis work recovered vast sums of stolen money for banks and coriKjrations. He was married in 1842 to Joan Carfral of Edinburgh, Scotland. Their s<ins William A. and Robert A. Pinkerton were taken into tiie business when quite young, and at their fatiier's death became iiis successors, and increased the agency by establishing offices in Boston, Denver, St. Paul, and Kansas Cit}-. Allan Pinkerton is the author of : The Molly Mugnires and the Detectives (1877) ; Criminal Reniinuicences (1878); The Sjjy of the Rebellion (18S3) ; TJiirty Years a Detective (1884) ; and nuineroiLs detective stories published in periodi- cals. He .lied in Chicago, 111., July 1, 1884.

PINKNEY, William, statesman, was born in Annajxilis, Md., March 17, 1704. During the Revolution his sympathies were with the patriot cause, notwithstanding the fact that his father was a staunch loyal- ist. He studied with a private tutor and read law under Judge Samuel Chase of Baltimore, being ad- mitted to the bar in 1786. He began prac- tice in Harford county, Md.; was a member of the state convention that rati- fied the constitution in 1788 ; a representa- tive in the house of delegates, 1788-92; a member of Governor Lee's council, 1792-94, and in 1796 was appointed a U..S. commissioner, under the Jay treaty, to deternune the losses of the American mer- chants, and to negotiate with England for a

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settlement. In 1804 he resumed his law prac- tice in Baltimore ; was attorney-general of Mary- land, 1805-06 ; an envoy extraordinary to Eng- land to treat with the British government respecting the violation of the neutrality law, and in 1807 succeeded James Monroe as minister plenipotentiary to the court of St. James. He returned to Baltimore in 1811 ; was a member of the state senate, and attornej'-general of the United States, 1812-14. He favored the war of 1812, and commanded a battalion of riflemen at the battle of Bladensburg, where he was wound- ed. He was a representative in the 14th con- gress, 1815-16, resigning to accept the office of minister to Russia and special envoy to Naples, where he served. 1816-18. He was chosen to the U.S. senate to fill the unexpired term of Alex- ander C. Hanson, who died April 23, 1819, and was re-elected in 1821 for the full term expiring March 3, 1827, and was succeeded b^' Samuel Smith. He died in Washington, D.C., Feb. 25, 1822.

PINKNEY, William, fifth Bishop of Maryland and 97th in succession in the American episco- pate, was born in Annapolis, Md., April 17, 1810. He was graduated from St. Jolm's college, Annap- olis, ]\Id., in 1827 ; was admitted lo the diaconate in Christ Church, Cambridge. Md., April 12, 1835, and advanced to the priesthood at All Saints', Frederick, Md., by Bishop William Murraj- Stone. He was pastor of the Somerset (Md.) parish, of St. Matthew's church, Bladensburg. Md., and of the church of the Ascension, Washington, D.C. He was elected assistant bishop of Maryland in 1870. and was consecrated in the Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D.C. Oct. 6, 1870, by Bishops Smitli, Johns and Atkinson, assisted by Bishops Odenheimer, Laj', Stevens, Quintard and Kerfoot. On the death of Bishop William Rollinson Whittingham, Oct. 17, 1879, he suc- ceeded as fifth bishop of Maryland. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on liim by St. John's college in 1855, and that of LL.D. by Columbian university, Washington, D.C, and bj' William and Mary college, in 1873. He is the author of : Life of William Pinkney 176^-1822 (1853); Memoir of John H. Alexander, LL.D. (1867). He died in Cockeysville, Md., July 4, 1883.

PINTARD, John, philanthropist, was born in New York city, IMay 18, 1759 ; son of John and Mary (Cannon) Pintard ; grandson of John and Catherine (Carre) Pintard and of John Cannon (father of Le Grand Cannon of Canada), and great grandson of Anthony Pintard, a Huguenot, who settled at Shrewsbury in 1786, where he was a merchant and a justice of the peace. Both liis grandfathers were prominent merchants. On the death of his parents in 1760. John Pintard was adopted by his uncle, Louis Pintard. a New York merchant. He was prepared for college at