Editing Allan Pinkerton (section)

==Death==
Pinkerton died in [[Chicago]] on July 1, 1884. It is usually said that Pinkerton slipped on the pavement and bit his tongue, resulting in [[gangrene]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tZRxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA49 |title=Icons of Crime Fighting: Relentless Pursuers of Justice |first=Jeff |last=Bumgarner |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |date=2008 |page=49 |isbn=9781567206739}}</ref> Contemporary reports give conflicting causes, such as that he succumbed to a stroke – he had a year earlier – or to [[malaria]], which he had contracted during a trip to the [[Southern United States]].<ref>Lanis, Edward Stanley (1949) ''Allan Pinkerton and the Private Detective Institution'' (M.S. Thesis). p. 170, University of Wisconsin, Madison.</ref> At the time of his death, he was working on a system to centralize all criminal identification records; such a [[NCIC|database]] is now maintained by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]].

[[File:Tomb of Allan Pinkerton.jpg|thumb|right|Pinkerton's Tomb, [[Graceland Cemetery]], Chicago.  Inset: The plaque on the obelisk]]

Pinkerton is buried between his wife and [[Kate Warne]] in the family plot in [[Graceland Cemetery]], Chicago.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n6o3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA207 |title=The Notorious Reno Gang: The Wild Story of the West's First Brotherhood of Thieves, Assassins, and Train Robbers |first=Rachel |last=Dickinson |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |date=2017 |page=207 |isbn=9781493026401}}</ref> He is a member of the [[Military Intelligence Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CdBiAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 |title=Maryland in the Civil War |first1=Mark A. |last1=Swank |first2=Dreama J. |last2=Swank| name-list-style= and |publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]] |year=2013 |page=26 |isbn=9781467120418}}</ref>