Yahoo: New Bedford's Hetty Green back in spotlight. New novel in the works.
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Hetty Green
Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age. Those who knew her well referred to her admiringly as the "Queen of Wall Street" due to her willingness to lend freely and at reasonable interest rates to financiers and city governments during financial panics. Her extraordinary discipline during such…
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business · American financier (1834–1916) · financier · also Hetty Green, Henrietta Green, Witch of Wall Street, Queen of Wall Street, Green
Born 21 November 1834 · Died 3 July 1916 · Q446490
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 6,256 Wikipedia readers in one day, 30.7× the usual 204, with 0 article edits.
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2024· 1 entry
AOL: Meet the ‘Witch of Wall Street,’ a black-clad pioneering value investor who became the world’s richest woman—but is wrongly remembered as a cheapskate
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2022· 1 entry
Yahoo: Reviving Hetty Green: Local transforms herself into New Bedford's 'Witch of Wall Street'
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2019· 1 entry
Brattleboro Reformer: Hetty Green probate filing still pending
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2010· 1 entry
Brattleboro Reformer: Who was Hetty Green?
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1959· 1 entry
And a modern facility was erected in 1961, which currently houses the Lillian Booth Actors Home
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1951· 1 entry
Leaving an estimated $200 million and donating all but $1,388,000 to 64 colleges, churches, hospitals, and other charities
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1916· 2 entries
Died 1916-07-03.
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Green died at age 81 at her son's New York City home
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1860· 1 entry
But her $100,000 estate went to her husband, except for an $8,000 (equivalent to $287,000 in 2025) house for Green
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1834· 2 entries
Born 1834-11-21.
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In New Bedford, Massachusetts, the daughter of Edward Mott Robinson and Abby Howland, the richest whaling family in the city
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