Jesse James brothers took part, although an eyewitness who knew the brothers told a newspaper seven years later "positively and emphatically that he recognized Jesse and Frank James ... among the robbers." In 1868, Frank and Jesse James allegedly joined Cole Younger in robbing a bank in Russellville, Kentucky. Jesse James did not become well-known until December 7, 1869, when he and (most likely) Frank robbed the Daviess County Savings Association in Gallatin, Missouri. The robbery netted little money. Jesse is believed to have shot and killed the cashier, Captain John Sheets, mistakenly believing him to be Samuel P. Cox, the militia
The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York its founders and first directors were Thomas Eddy, William Bayard Jr., DeWitt Clinton, Archibald Gracie,Cadwallader D. Colden, John Pintard, Matthew Clarkson, Peter Augustus Jay and Brockholst Livingston. Although many credit Eddy with founding the institution, Bayard, who was also a director of the Bank of America founded by Amadeo Giannini, served as the bank's first president. It later merged with the Buffalo Savings Bank in 1982 and its name was subsequently changed to Goldome. The bank is no longer extant today. The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York (1819