Bygones: Cromwell family, separated by county for 33 years, reunited in 1955

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Five boys were seized and "farmed out" by the government as children. They found each other and their parents when they were middle-aged.

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News-Tribune, April 15, 1955An elderly Cromwell couple learned the locations of their five sons, who had been missing for 33 years after they were taken by Carlton County officials and "farmed out" separately to families that put them to work. The county had seized the boys on the grounds of lack of school attendance and inadequate clothing. The family is planning a reunion.



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