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		Hetty Green is still remembered in unkind terms as the "Witch of Wall Street" and the "World's Greatest Miser".
		Hetty was descended from the Howland and Robinson families, whose fortunes were made in the 19th century New Bedford whaling industry.
		Hetty inherited millions of dollars as a young woman and devoted her life to shrewd investing and bare-knuckled negotiations.
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	Hetty Green - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hetty Green was born Henrietta Howland Robinson in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
		Ned was born on August 22, 1868 and Sylvia (formally, Hetty Sylvia Ann Howland Green) on January 7, 1871.
		Hetty Green died in New York City on July 3, 1916, at the age of 81.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hetty_Green (1511 words)

	Hetty Green
		Hetty Green was born Henrietta Howland Robinson in November 21 1835 in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
		Hetty Green was mainly interested in business and there are many tales of various accuracy of her stinginess.
		Green made much of her business sitting in the floor of the Seaboard National Bank in New York in a middle of a trunks and suitcases full of her papers; she did not want to pay rent for an office.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/he/hetty_green.html (812 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hetty's final words? Perhaps bah, humbug! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hetty's trials are remarkable: Hetty trying to bribe one judge, interrupting another, having her own lawyer object to HER line of questioning.
		Hetty Green, devoting the greater part of his time and mind to the increasing of an inherited fortune that even at the start was far larger than is needed for the satisfaction of all such human needs as money can satisfy, nobody would have seen him as very peculiar.
		Green was a woman that made her career the subject of endless curiosity, comment and astonishment.
	www.usatoday.com /money/books/reviews/2004-12-20-hetty_x.htm (1126 words)

	Bulls and Bears: Tales of the Zoo: Personalities: Hetty Green
		Hetty Green was born in Massachusetts in 1834, to a relatively wealthy family.
		As a result of her miserly and eccentric reputation, as well as her strange appearance, Hetty Green came to be known as the "Witch of Wall Street".
		Hetty did not borrow, she maintained significant liquid assets, and she knew the value of stocks and bonds.
	stocktaleslot.blogspot.com /2006/08/personalities-hetty-green.html (870 words)

	Hetty Green
		Hetty, who could read the financial pages when she was 6 years old, didn't hesitate to exercise her aggressive style with her newfound riches.
		Hetty Green gained her nickname, the Witch of Wall Street from her fellow investors who often chuckled when Hetty arrived in her usual garb - a long, fl 'dress' and solid fl petticoat.
		Hetty finally died in 1916 of a stroke suffered while engaged in a heated argument with her maid over the price of milk.
	www.altereddimensions.net /people/HettyGreen.htm (324 words)

	Studyarea.com's Free Essays Site - "Witch of Wall Street - Hetty Green " (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Hetty grew older and attended a school for fine young girls she was quick to realize that she was an outcast, she had no social skills, she had no interest in the petty things other girls her age wanted and was on an extremely different wavelength than the rest of them.
		Hetty was so obsessed with the fact that doctors were just ripping her off, and she delayed treatment until he needed his foot amputated.
		But somehow this little relationship I have formed with Hetty says to me, no matter how she would be raised the power inside of Hetty Green would have erupted at one point and she still would have conquered the JP Morgan’s, Cisco’, and Huntington’s of those times with her brilliance and ability to trade.
	essay.studyarea.com /essay/Movies_Plays_Tv_Reports/95.php (1165 words)

	Museum of American Financial History
		Green understood that money was a tool that must be employed efficiently if its owners were to profit, and the only way to profit was to be on the magic side of compounding.
		As a child, Green was exposed to the world of business and finance by her father and grandfather who were engaged in the profitable business of whaling.
		Second, Hetty Green was always on the magic side of compound interest because she allowed compounding to work for her rather than against her.
	www.financialhistory.org /fh/1996/55-1.htm (1221 words)

	NWHM Biographies
		Eventually, Green was able to procure one million dollars of her father’s fortune in 1865 and a portion of her aunt’s in the 1870s.
		Green proved that the stereotypes about women’s math abilities were incorrect when she greatly increased her fortune through careful investing.
		Green was dubbed "The Witch of Wall Street" because of her extreme frugality, caution, and shrewdness, coupled with her typical attire of long fl dresses.
	www.nmwh.org /Education/biography_hgreen.html (633 words)

	Hetty Green
		Green solía decir: "quisiera que las mujeres tuviesen más derechos en los negocios.
		Pues bien: Hetty Green, en su época, era más rica de lo que es Trump.
		Green compró bienes raíces y ferrocarriles cuando los vio baratos y rara vez los vendió.
	onasis.blog.labolsa.com /1162855380/hetty-green (1324 words)

	Museum of American Financial History
		Green understood that money was a tool that must be employed efficiently if its owners were to profit, and the only way to profit was to be on the magic side of compounding.
		As a child, Green was exposed to the world of business and finance by her father and grandfather who were engaged in the profitable business of whaling.
		Second, Hetty Green was always on the magic side of compound interest because she allowed compounding to work for her rather than against her.
	financialhistory.org /fh/1996/55-1.htm (1221 words)

	Hetty Green
		Hetty Green was born Henrietta Howland Robinson at New Bedford, Massachusetts, on November 21st in 1834.
		Through a series of shrewd investments, Hetty made her fortune grow and won herself the title of 'The Queen of Wall Street.' However, rival investors, jealous of her repeated successes, preferred to call her 'The Witch of Wall Street’ and that's the title she eventually took to her grave on July 3rd 1916.
		When Hetty died in 1916 at the age of 81, her fortune was estimated at more than $100 million (over $17 billion in today's dollars).
	eslsite.com /rd/Reading-Listening/hetty_green.html (791 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Hetty Howland Robinson Green, financier, was born on November 21, 1834, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, one of two children of Edward Mott and Abby Slocum (Howland) Robinson.
		Green possessed a striking sense of business acumen and good timing, and thus she saw her wealth increase many times over during her lifetime.
		Hetty Green never lived in Texas, but she kept a close eye on her son's work here, which was based in Terrell.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/GG/fgrrw.html (773 words)

	The Green Family
		Isaac Green, eldest son of William Raleigh Green, was born August 21, 1755, and was married to Elizabeth Wilson, Mary 28, 1780.
		Edwin Orville Green was educated in the common schools of Union township, and the Indiana State Normal School at Terre Haute; he taught for six years, and was principal of the schools at Raub, Benton county, in 1886-7, and at Memphis in 1887-8-9.
		Clara Daisy Green was married December 26, 1897, to Joseph L. Shirley, a farmer of Union township.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/in/state/clark_co/green_family.htm (952 words)

	FaithWriters.com-Christian Grief - Piercing Grief
		Hetty, her investments earning over $500 an hour, once tore apart a carriage looking for a two-cent stamp that had become lost in the compartment.
		When Hetty’s son, Ned, suffered a knee injury, she refused to take him to a doctor, fearing the bill would be more than she was willing to pay.
		I realize Hetty Green is not here to defend her decisions and it’s possible not everything that has been written about her is 100 percent accurate.
	www.faithwriters.com /article-details.php?id=32431 (571 words)

	Senior Women Web > Articles > David Westheimer
		Hetty Green lived in a cold water flat in Hoboken, wore the same shapeless fl dress for days on end, seldom bathed and when her son hurt his leg severely would not pay to get a doctor.
		Furious, Hetty went to court to get it all, introducing a new “will,” in Hetty’s handwriting (she claimed her aunt had dictated it to her and signed it).
		Hetty Green must have whirled in her grave.
	www.seniorwomen.com /articles/david/articlesDavidHetty.html (1315 words)

	My Project Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hetty Green was thrust into the world of wealth at her birth on November 21, 1834.
		Hetty absorbed business knowledge at a very young age, when she was forced to read the newspaper's business section alound to her grandfather, who had poor eyesight.
		Hetty's father left her $1 million and a $4 million trust fund, and the death of Hetty's Aunt Sylvia left Hetty with over half a million.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~lbh/projectpage.html.html (543 words)

	TIME.com: Green Grist -- Apr. 19, 1937 -- Page 1
		He was the son of Hetty Green, once the world's richest woman—the penny-pinching "Witch of Wall Street" who used to shuttle between Brooklyn and Hoboken to avoid establishing residence and paying taxes while she was making millions in the stockmarket.
		Hetty conducted her affairs from any desk she chose in Manhattan's old Chemical National Bank, often ate a lunch of sliced Spanish onions while sitting on the bank's floor at noon.
		Fond as Hetty was of Son Ned, she was too stingy to call in a doctor when he was injured in a childhood coasting accident and one leg eventually had to be amputated.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,757645,00.html (725 words)

	Vermont Books at Village Square Booksellers
		Green cloth binding with hand-tipped illustrations to front and rear boards.
		Slack looks beyond the lore and historical prejudices to reveal the real Hetty Green, known as the "Witch of Wall Street," who dueled with the giants of the Gilded Age and amassed a fortune of $100 million before women had the right to vote.
		At the time of her death in 1916, Hetty Green's personal fortune was estimated at $100 million ($1.6 billion today), and the financial empire she built on real estate and railroads rivaled that of Andrew Carnegie, Jay Gould, J. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and some of the nation's biggest banks.
	www.villagesquarebooks.com /localhistory.html (1826 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / PRICES FROM THE PAST’VI
		In 1867 she married Edward Green, who was himself worth over a million dollars, and by 1885 her capital had grown to $26,000,000, largely as a result of his skillful management.
		When Hetty Green’s son, Ned, was fourteen he dislocated his kneecap in a sledding accident, and rather than spend any money on a doctor his mother looked after the boy herself.
		When Hetty Green died in 1916 at the age of eighty-one, she left her son and daughter an estate worth over one hundred million dollars.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1962/3/1962_3_24.shtml (1060 words)

	Amazon.ca: Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon: Books: Charles Slack (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hetty Green (1835-1916) was the only woman to make her mark in the financial markets during the Guilded Age of the late 1800s.
		Slack's account reveals a much more multidimensional character than Green was popularly believed to be; yes, she was eccentric, but her wry wit and colorful personality bring humor and pathos to this story.
		At the time of her death in 1916, Hetty Green's personal fortune was estimated at $100 million ($1.6 billion today), and the financial empire she built on real estate and railroads rivaled that of Andrew Carnegie, Jay Gould, J. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and some of the nation's biggest banks.
	www.amazon.ca /Hetty-Genius-Madness-Americas-Tycoon/dp/006054256X (470 words)

	The Witch of Wall Street (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hetty's father, Edward Mott Robinson, and her aunt Sylvia Ann Howland both died in 1865, leaving her an inheritance of nearly $10 million (worth some $185 million in today's dollars).
		Hetty immediately began investing in the financial markets, scoring her first major success after the Civil War as she bought depreciated U.S. government bonds from skittish investors.
		Hetty herself lived off cold oatmeal because she was too stingy to heat it, and died of apoplexy in an argument over the virtues of skimmed milk.
	www.brfwitness.org /Bread/witchws.htm (349 words)

	hetty pictures and videos on Webshots
		Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green (November 21, 1834 â“ July 3, 1916) was...
		Hetty, Sharon Hauge, Maimo Welch, Honi Gaines, Geneviev...
		Hettie even schuin als de toren van Pisa.
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	Help celebrate Hetty Green's 167th birthday: 11/21/01
		On Hetty Green's 167th birthday, her value in today's dollars would be $17.6 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal Millennium Edition, says Edith Nichols, who portrays the historical character.
		A coin-shaped plaque was dedicated at Hetty Robinson Howland Green's birthplace, 43 S. Seventh St., one block from the Nathan and Polly Johnson House, where Frederick Douglass was sheltered.
		Green, who died in 1916, parlayed a $900,000 legacy from her father into a huge fortune through shrewd investments in real estate, stocks and bonds, becoming known in the process as "The Witch of Wall Street."
	www.s-t.com /daily/11-01/11-21-01/b01li083.htm (278 words)

	Company
		Our name, Green Cay, reflects admiration for Hetty Green, the first prominent woman financier on Wall Street at the turn of the century.
		She died in 1916 with a greater fortune than the more infamous J.P. Morgan and is the only woman ranked in the historical top ten of the wealthiest people in the US.
		Green Cay also is the name of an island in The Bahamas visited by an early exploration party of Christopher Columbus in the 15 th century.
	www.greencayasset.com /company.html (159 words)

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		Hetty Green's real life story is more fascinating than the myth of the Witch of Wall Street, and her son the Colonel and daughter Sylvia should be treasured, American icons.
		Hetty Howland Robinson Green was a female financial genius ahead of her time.
		Even Hetty's son, the Colonel, when interviewed after her death, in 1916, in his rooms at the Waldorf in N.Y. berated reporters that they did not know his mother at all.
	www.darkendeavors.com /forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=93&mid=1012 (1527 words)

	Hetty Green - the Richest, Meanest Woman in the World - A Look at the World's History
		Henrietta (Hetty) Green was a very spoilt, only child.
		At 33 she married Edward Green, a multimillionaire, and had two children, Ned and Sylvia.
		She walked to the local grocery store to buy broken cookies (biscuits) which were much cheaper, and to get a free bone for her much-loved dog, Dewey.
	worldshistory.informbank.com /articles/persons/richest-woman-in-world.htm (325 words)

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		Hetty's last years were spent in New York.
		Always an ardent Quaker, Hetty wanted to be buried with her family in the Immanuel Church's cemetery in Bellows Falls.
		Though at age 33 she married a wealthy businessman, Edward Green, Hetty insisted their household in Bellows Falls, Vermont be run with extreme parsimony.
	www.lycos.com /info/green-hetty--bellows-falls.html (242 words)

	The Witch of Wall Street [Fool.com] October 31, 2005
		Hetty Green's recipe for wealth was a combination of extreme frugalness, shrewd investments, and a huge $5 million inheritance that she received at the age of 31 in 1865.
		Hetty would not wash her bedding or underclothes, or even her entire dress.
		Probably the most extreme example of her miserliness was when Hetty's son, Ned, injured his leg in a sledding accident.
	www.fool.com /investing/value/2005/10/31/the-witch-of-wall-street.aspx (1405 words)

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