Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-04
HETTY GREEN ONCE MORE
Her Husband is Dying in
 Vermont.

He Was One of the Pioneers in the
 East India Tea Trade-He Has Now
 Passed His Eightieth Year-Was at One Time Worth Nine Millions of Dollars.
 A. Green, husband of Hetty Green, the
 richest woman, is dying in the Green
 homestead here. He has been in lail-
 ing health for several months, but re- gently has been better, and on Mon day Mrs Green returned to New York,
 after spending the summer here. On Wednesday Mir Greens condition took
 decided change for the worse, com
 plications setting in, and Mrs Green was called hastily from New York, ar-
 irving last night.
 The only son, Edward H. R. Green,
 railroad man and politician of Texas,
 here by morning.
 While Edward A. Green was one of
 the pioneers in the East India trade ] and accumulated a large fortune in the
 tea business, his chief distinction has
 been for many years that he is the husband of the richest woman in America. The great business ability
 of his wife and her eccentricities have kept him in the reflex before the eyes
 of the world That public attention has been accentuated by his own pscu- liar mode of living and the extraordi- | nary relations subsisting between him and the Shrewd, far-Seeing woman who bears his name. Apparently it re- | quired the imminency of death to bring l them together once more, for they | have been living apart for several | years.
 | In going to him in Bellows Falls to minister to him in his desperate ill- ness she simply repeats what she did 1 in November, 1898, when an attack of | infammatory rheumatism threatened his life At that time she went to his
 rooms in the Cumberland hotel and 1 quietly assumed the role of nurse to l the man she had loved earlier in life,
 but who had, to all intents and pur-
 poses. become a bachelor while she and l her daughter became nomads. She nursed him back to health and took him to her modest flat in Hoboken to spend the period of his cOnyalescence. | MT Green has passed his eightieth |
 year. For seventeen years, while en- gagged in business, he lived ill Manila, 1 but after his retirement and the loss l of his fortune in Wall street he has 1 spent most of his time in the Cumber- 1 land hotel and the Union League club, i making occasional visits to the old
 homestead in Bellows Falls. His bad Iuck in Wall street is said to have | caused the rupture between him and
 Mrs Green.
 | When they were married he was worth millions and she had inheri-ei l Sa.OCO OOO from her father. It IS sad | that she became his wife because she believed he was economical, like her
 self. The idea was the result, it is 1 said. of his accidentally sending her a
 rcceipted bill for a cheap suit of l clothes which he had purchased for an oll friend who was pinched by pover- | tv. Later, after they were man and l wife. she discovered her mistake. In l Wall street he acquired the reputation of being a spendthrift, and his poor l indgment in making investments led 1 to the loss of his money.
 Two children were born to them. | Ono is Edward H. R. Green, at one | time chairman of the republican state 1 con mittee in Texas, and a millionaire. l The other IS SylVld hdNHauu 6Ie31, | who remained with her mother after
 her father had left her. Later she left ] her mother and was cared for by her brother, who also contributed liberally l to fhe support of his father.
 Mrs Green was born in New Bed
 ford, Mass,in .1845. Early in life she
 was a New York society belle and had
 sweethearts by the score. Freddy 1 Gcbhard's father was one of them. Tn | those days she was an heiress, and at
 tended balls and parties.
 For some time after their marriage | the Greens lived in London, where the
 children were born.