![]() ![]() ![]() Variously described over the years by writers, journalists and historians as: “The Richest Woman in America,” “America’s First Female Tycoon,” “The World’s Greatest Miser,” “The Scrooge of Scrooges,” “The Queen of Skinflints,” “one of the most amazing characters, man or woman that this country has ever produced,” and “one of the greatest individual practitioners of the art of finance capitalism ever to have lived.” Hetty became an American legend. Hetty Green, by her nature, encouraged superlatives. (New Bedford Mercury, February 22, 1938) in Hetty By Charles Slack. "After Hetty's death, family genealogist William Emery asked her son, Ned, for clarification and was told her name was "absolutely and positively was Hetty and nothing else.". Hetty Howland Robinson Green (1834-1916) – “The Witch of Wall Street” ![]()
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