English Remittance men … An Englishman, “Red,” was one of this area’s Remittance Men. Wealthy families sent away their extra sons and paid them to stay away. Currency restrictions enacted before the U.S. entered WW I (as many thought the Country would side
with Germany) ended these English subsidies in and around 1915. No one knew his real name; a traveling team of craftsmen had built his cabin under contract from England, just as a traveling team of carpenters built the Freeborn Chapel across the road with help of Milltown. Red, who never bathed, was found sick one day and taken by buggy to Stanwood’s new hospital, only recently opened by Dr. Allen and his wife Mary Stockbridge Allen. Given a bath, he promptly died. The record of his life can be seen in this 1-room cabin (that had a stove and hand water pump inside). In later years this cabin was used for visiting ministers for Freeborn Church.
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