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Bob Younger. Robert Ewing Younger (October 29, 1853 – September 16, 1889) was an American criminal and outlaw, the younger brother of Cole, Jim and John Younger. He was a member of the James–Younger Gang. He stood six feet, two inches tall and had deep blue eyes, muscular arms, and a thick neck. [1]
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- Robert Ewing Younger, October 29, 1853, Lee's Summit, Missouri, U.S.
John Harrison Younger (1851-1874) – The younger brother of Cole and Jim Younger, John was the 11th of 14 children born in the Younger clan. When brothers Cole and Jim joined William Quantrill’s Guerillas during the Civil War, John and his brother, Bob, were too young and stayed home to look after their mother and sisters.
Mar 19, 2024 · After the war, in 1866, Cole joined Jesse and Frank James and other outlaws in a gang robbing banks in Missouri and in surrounding states. Jim Younger joined them in 1868, John Younger about a year later, and Bob Younger about 1872. The next summer the gang added train robberies to their derring-do. By this time, Pinkerton agents and Missouri ...
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Jan 15, 2010 · YOUNGER GANG. Bob Younger, wounded and captured by a posse in 1876, accurately described the outlaw Younger brothers when he said, "We are rough men and used to rough ways." Fourteen Younger children were raised on the family farm near Lee's Summit, Missouri. Four of the boys drifted into lives of violence and crime.
Aug 6, 2012 · Bob Younger died in prison of tuberculosis in 1889 at age 35. Cole and Jim were paroled in 1901. In 1902, Jim killed himself. The next year, granted a conditional pardon, Cole returned home to Missouri. He died in 1916, just a year after Frank James’s death. Cole never implicated the James boys in the Northfield crime.
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Discretion and discussion are advised for classroom use. On September 7, 1876, the notorious James-Younger Gang rode into Northfield, Minnesota to rob the town's First National Bank. The gang, made up of members Cole Younger, Frank James, Jesse James, Jim Younger, Bob Younger, Clell Miller, Bill Chadwell, and Charlie Pitts, had spent 10 years ...
Apr 11, 2017 · Then, just before 2 P.M. three men, Frank James, Charlie Pitts and Bob Younger crossed the river bridge to the west and rode up the town’s main street. They hitched their horses in front of the bank, walked up to the corner, sat down on some dry goods boxes and visited with locals for a few minutes.
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