The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-03-10
MRS. EDW ARD Il. GREEN
WHO is SAID TO Be THE RICHEST
WOMAN IN AMERICA.
Her 500, 900, 900 of Securities with Cisco
& Son-Her Intimate knowledge of
Railroad Securities characteristics
Husband and Children.
New York Times !


est. She not only had about $50, 900 in cash
deposited subject to draft, but she also had
about %36, 000, 900 of stocks and government
and railroad bonds securely locked up in the
FIRMS faults as a special trust. For more
than twenty years, it is said, John J. Cisco
& Son cared for Mrs Green's securities and
collected the interest on her bonds ami the
dividends on her stocks.
soon after the rumors affecting the credit
of the banking firm were started Mrs. Green
wrote from Bellows Falls, Vt, where she is
residing, requesting the firm to close her &C
| count, stating that she desired to place her
cash in other banks The letter reached
John j. Cisco & Son while heavy run was
| being made upon them by their depositors.
Friends of the firm say that to have paid the
| large amount called for by Mrs Green at
that time would have crippled the concern
and caused a sacrifice of the interests Of
other creditors. The firm replied to Mrs.
Green's letter informing her that her hus-
band, Mr. E, H. Green, formerly vice-presi-
dent Of the Louisville q Nashville railroad,
| owed them $500 900 and requesting her to al
| low her deposit to remain for the time being
as an Offset to that loan This she promptly
| declined TO do, as it has always been her in
variable rule to keep her own financial mat
| tiers entirely separate from those of her
| husband
Mrs +. II. Green is well known by repu-
! tation at least, in Wall street She is be-
| lieved to be the richest woman in America
! a title earned by her own business sagacity
energy and watchfulness. Her father, a
| New Bedford whaler named Johnson, died
some years ago and left her, it is said, about
| $4,000, 900. She has lived frugal life, ex-
| ercisei extraordinary keenness in her invest
ments, and by embracing every good oppor-
| tunity that the stock market afforded, she
has more than quintupled her heritage
| Old Wall street operators give Mrs. Green
credit for having as intimate a knowledge
ut railroad securities as any person they
| know A broker said that he knew of more
than one instance where Mrs Green had
| gotten up "a corner in Reading stock She is
SO largely interested in the Louisville &
Nashville securities that it has been fire.
| quently said that she practically owns the
| road
The richest woman in America has some
| strongly marked characteristics. She does
business on tbs strictest business principles,
regardless of sentiment or relationship, and
- "a Al % w.
ralc OF her life to indulge i'll no personal
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sons in this vicinity have moi heard Of Hetti,
II ,;rean and her onormous nossassions
Mpcb has been written ON the manner il
which she accumulated ber riches but littl,
has been said regarding the extraoriinar,
life She loads mn here in the Green Mnunta il
state There are n oreot many inbsbitant
of Bellows Fails who can recall the DAYS O
NJ, Green's youth when he was n LARGE
hearted nobIa-djsno. itioned lad Mr. Greer
snapds much Of his time in New York city
]ravjng Mrs Green. the hoy. Edward abon
i, .yoars Of sqa and the rirl Sylvia nearI,
Il to i've in their chosen economic STYLE a
the local bo,talrv of course the boreI i
frs+-cIass hu+ Mrs Grsen seIact, the cbean
Isl auartnauts 70 be had in the house an.
ioIfi-os poi+her herself nor the chiIJran il
any, lnvr,ias The son Edward resembles hi
f,:b.r in form and ,rpra If mot for lap,anas
h., would 10 pohle looking felIo,v n
is NOT vet Il Years Of are but wheI
STANDING erect i six feet tall III
daupht,r i ouite delicate rather peryon
and very gentle and is said to possess he
mothers traits Of character TO a reinarkabl
derrae
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on,Tition in life no. noon tn mako bar 50,
tbo ,raoIthiagt man in tho Unitad Stato
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AM tHeIe 1le young oreeiiS, II Is salu, al
Mrs. Green looks to be - years old, is 0
ROBUST form, usually wears her lron-gfa
Lar ~ french TWIST ana her sharp eye
cohtiuuaiiy darI from one ooJeco 20 ahoIher
one Is woman oil tremendous VIII power
her determination being quite as remarkabl