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Remittance man
In 19th century British usage, a remittance man is an emigrant, often to a British colony, supported or assisted by payment of money from his paternal home. As a general term remittance man or remittance woman could mean anyone living away from home supported mainly by their family in a different house, neighborhood, city, or country regardless of their reason for being there. Such a person may be seeking business fortune, education, extended vacation, a new place for the family to move, employment, or safety from personal, family, or legal troubles.
Note that in this context, money is being sent in the opposite direction to today's usual usage of the term remittance, which means money that migrants send back into their home countries.
==Successful remittance men==
A remittance man could be a younger son trying to escape the shadow of elder dominating sons to seek his own fortune and proof of worth, such as George Vanderbilt of the Biltmore Estate. Other less famous persons who lived off family remittance payments came from middle-class families who could afford to send them. These might move from their east coast family home to the west coast seeking fortune and starting new businesses as American commerce historically expanded west.
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