Jesse James
By:Eli Grose

BIRTH

• September 5, 1847
• Near Kearney, Missouri

DEATH

• April 3, 1882
• aged 34
• St. Joseph, Missouri
• Robert Ford
• Shot in the back of the head
• Jesse James was unarmed

FAMILY

• Alexander Franklin "Frank" James
• Susan Lavenia James
• Father:Robert S. James
• Mother: Zerelda Cole James
• Step Fathers: Benjamin Simms (1852),Dr. Reuben Samuel(1855)
• Step-siblings: Sarah Louisa, John Thomas, Fannie Quantrell, and Archie Peyton Samuel

Robert S. James

Zerelda James

Franklin James

Susan Lavenia James

Reuben Samuel

JOBS/GANG

• outlaw
• bank robber
• train robber
• guerrilla
• James–Younger Gang

CIVIL WAR

• Civil war took hold of Missouri
• Jesse’s father fought in the war in a Missouri
• Frank fought at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in August 1861

TAYLOR GANG

• Jesse join the Taylor gang when they came back to Missouri
• Taylor gang took part in many killing

ROBBERY

• Jesse and Frank
• Clay County robbery
• robbed a bank in Richmond, Missouri, in which they killed the mayor and two others

MORE ROBBERY

• 1868, Frank and Jesse James allegedly joined Cole Younger in robbing a bank in Russellville, Kentucky
• December 7, 1869, when he and (most likely) Frank robbed the Daviess County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri

James–Younger Gang

• gang carried out a string of robberies from Iowa to Texas, and from Kansas to West Virginia
• July 21, 1873, they turned to train robbery, derailing a Rock Island Line train west of Adair, Iowa and stealing approximately $3,000 (equivalent to $61,000 in 201
• they wore Ku Klux Klan masks