Papers, 1852-1959.

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Papers, 1852-1959.

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Business correspondence with Allen Pinkerton, William Pinkerton, and other contemporaries, 1860-1911, concerning transporting prisoners, criminal cases, his prisoner status during the Civil War, reminiscences from fellow woman prisoner, and other professional matters; correspondence with David Cronin concerning Cronin's book about Lewis' life, 1889; family correspondence including Lewis' letters home while on trips, and letters to Maria Thwaites Lewis from her relatives Albert Thwaites, Josiah Thwaites, and Peter Thwaites, 1852-1911; manuscript of Lewis' memoirs as told to David Cronin, ca.1889; legal papers including army passes, summonses, and agreements concerning the A.T. Stewart estate, 1861-1900; obituary clippings, 1911; and photographs of Lewis, the Pinkertons, Civil War prisoners, and the Thwaites and Lewis families, 1855-ca. 1890. Collection also includes research notes, unpublished articles, and correspondence of Harriet Schoen concerning her work on Lewis' life and career and her publication efforts, 1951-1959; correspondents include W. Barrett Brown, Ralph Dudley of Pinkerton's, Mary Lewis, and Colonel Louis Sigaud.

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Cronin, David F.

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Thwaites, Albert.

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Pinkerton, William.

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Sigaud, Louis A. (Louis Adrien), 1893-

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Lewis, Maria Thwaites.

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Brown, Mary Barrett

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Thwaites, Josiah

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Lewis, Pryce, 1831-1911

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Detective. Lewis immigrated to the U.S. from Wales in 1856, worked for Pinkerton's Detective Agency, and was a Union spy during Civil War; he founded his own detective agency after the War and worked on murder case of A.T. Stewart. He married Maria Thwaites and had two children, Mary and Arthur. From the description of Papers, 1852-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155490112 ...

Thwaites, Peter, 1944-

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Pinkerton's National Detective Agency

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Biographical Notes and Organizational History Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884) 1819, Aug. 25 Born, Glasgow, Scotland 1842 Married Joan Carfrae Fled to North America fearing arrest for activities in Chartist Movement, residing first in Mont...

Thwaites family.

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Pinkerton, Allen.

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Stewart, A. T. Q. (Anthony Terence Quincey), 1929-2010

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Lewis, Mary.

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Schoen, Harriet.

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Pryce Lewis was born in 1828 in Newton, Wales and emigrated to the United States in 1856. During the Civil War, he was employed by the Pinkerton Detective Agency and worked as a spy for the Union in Richmond, Va. He was captured and sentenced to be hanged but managed to escape death bacuse of his British citizenshi. After his release he served as bailiff and special detective officer of Old Capitol prison in Washington, D.C. until the end of the war. In January, 1868 he married Maria Thwaites. T...

Dudley, Ralph.

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Lewis family.

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George F. Lewis was born in Harvard, Massachusetts in 1828. He moved to Mt. Clemens, Michigan in 1835. In 1845 he became acquainted with Horace Greeley, and in July of 1848 he took a position on the Daily Commercial Bulletin, which was starting in Detroit. He helped to put in type the first news of a presidential election ever received by telegraph. He helped to found the Saginaw Daily Courier in 1868 and started the Mt. Pleasant Journal in 1880 and the Daily Call in Bay City in 1881. He continu...