WALLACE W.PINKERTON

Son of William and Rachel Pinkerton, was born in Trumbull county, Ohio. May 6, 1842. When an infant his father came to Illinois and entered a claim on section 18, in Greene township, The subject of this sketch remained at home until the fall of 1856. In 1859 he went to Colorado and engaged in mining in Russell Gulch, near Central City, and remained there until the fall of 1861, when he returned to Illinois, where he farmed until August, 1862, when he enlisted in Co. D, 83 Ill. Inf.

Was with. the regiment but one year, after which he did detached duty, until the close of the war. In September, 1863, he and his three companions rode up to a house in which were hidden seven guerrillas. A skirmish followed in which Mr. Pinkerton was shot in the hand, tearing one finger from the socket. They succeded in dispatching six of them and the company that was coming up behind captured the seventh. Mr. Pinkerton was discharged June 15, 1865, after which he returned to Illinois. During his residence in Illinois he has been engaged in farming and coal mining.

He was married to Miss Elizabeth J. Carroll, who died in 1875. He was again married in 1878 to Miss Nancy Daley. He is father of two children, whose names in the order of their ages are : Kate and Myrtle. Mr. Pinkerton is, at the present writing, still a resident of Illinois, but is making preparations to start on a long journey toward the setting sun, and intends to cast his lot among the mountains of the west.

 

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