VP Beast Butler?

[Gene C]

I've only read two books about Jesse (never payed attention at the time if they were written by northerners), but Frank James seemed to be the more violent (and more inteligent, better educated) of the two. If I recall, their father, had been a minister?, but died when the boys were young and she remarried?

Frank was around 18 and Jesse 14 when the Civil War broke out.