Green, Hetty

Related Category: Business Leaders

1835–1916, American financier, b. Henrietta Howland Robinson, New Bedford, Mass. She inherited a large fortune from her father and invested it so shrewdly that she was considered the greatest woman financier in the world. Extremely miserly during her lifetime, the “Witch of Wall Street” left an estate valued at $100–200 million.

See biography by B. Sparkes and S. T. Moore (1930); A. H. Lewis, The Day They Shook the Plum Tree (1963).