Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11
A Famously Rich Woman.

Some time ago the President Of the
Louisville, Nashville and Great Southern
Railroad said that there was woman
owning stock in that railroad who had
S25, 100000. thought over the whole
range of women in this country, and
failed to drop to any with that amount
of money. inquired of other persons,
and they thought the woman was .
myth. But have understood, within q
day or two, that there is really woman
with fortune of that, or approximate,
magnitude, though she is scarcely
known to any body either in financial or
social circles.
She is a Mrs. Green, the wife of .
former American merchant in China,
who is himself said to be worth 81, 0O0,l
600. This gentleman spends most of
his time about the Union Club, New
York, while his wife resides with an
invalid son at Bellows Falls, Vermont.
She derives her fortune from man
known as "Blubber" Robinson, who
owned the largest line of whale-ships ut
New Bedford, Mass. New Bedford, you
will remember, is quite modern town
in New England, having been settled
only ten years before the Revolutionary
War. 1t took the name of Bedford,
because the land was owned by a Mr..
Russell, who remembered that Russell
was the family name of the Dukes Of
Bedford. This town grew rich by the
address of Quaker named Rotch, who
persuaded the French and British Gov
ernments to let him ship them whale oil
duty free. Then arose magnificent
whaling business for New Bedford,
which in 1888 had 10 whale ships,
employing 1000 sailors, and which feet
brought 100000 barrels of whale oil
year.
The man known as "Blubber " Rob
inson is said to have had line of whale
ships painted blue in color, and had ex-
traordinary success, both on the sea and
in the employment of his capital on
shore. After the discovery of gold in
California the whaling business declined,
and during the War of the Rebellion the
big New Bedford fleet in the Pacific
Ocean was destroyed by one of the
worthless Rebel privateers. Meantime
it seems that the carefully treasured
wealth of Blubber" Robinson passed
into the hands of a daughter, educated
into an extraordinary passion for penu-
ry, and taught that there was but one
left to man, and that
was to "know the value of money" In
the City of Paris, on an occasion, Miss
encountered Mr.. +. ii. Green,
and their fortunes were Joined. She,
however, kept her own separately, both
in the amount and the management, and
1 understand that Mr.. Cisco, in New
York, the banker, is her business agent
and makes her investments. Mr.. Green
hunts out investments on his
own account.
Mrs. Green is said to have 10000
shares of stock in the Louisville organi.
cation, and considerable more than that
in the Houston & Texas Central Rail-
road. If we will suppose that these TO-.
300 share originally cost $40 share,
they have gone up about 81 ,0O0. 900 in
the subsequent rise of the stock. / am
not sure that l have the figures correctly
in my mind as to the number of shares
possessed by this woman. The husband,
Mr.. Green, is said to have been original
y a man of fine general observation and
scholarship, but his connec-
ion with such well-husbanded fortune
has also made him something of mono
maniac on wealth.-"Gath in the Gin
,innati Enquirer.