The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-03
HETTY GREEN |S DEAD IN NEW
 YORK

Green. the richest woman in the
 world. died here today.
 Hetty Green was the worlds most remarkable mistress of finance, The | fortune she has left is close to $100,- | 0O0,0 The richest woman in Am
 erica, she lived almost as frugally as a shop girl. Her home was wherever
 she chose for a time to hang her lit 1 tie cape and bonnet, often in the
 hall bedroom of some cheap boarding
 house or in some remote and modest
 flat around New York.
 Her eccentric extremes of economy
 led to a popular misconception of her
 as a self made woman AS a mat
 ter of fact she was born rich. In 1865
 she inherited some $1O,O00,00O which accumulated upon itself until in fifty l years it had multiplied nearly ten
 times. She also inherited family tra-
 ditions which had been d pride for
 three centuries. and which she was anxious to perpetuate in her children. She was born at New Bedford.
 Mass, "in November. 1894, about the | 20th," according to her testimony at
 one time in court She was a de
 scendant on her mothers side of Henry Rowland, brother of Pilgrim
 John Howland of the Mayflower. In succeeding generations the How
 land family became famous in the | whaling industry and shipping trade with China, and had an irreproach
 able social standing. Edward Mott Robinson, who had also amassed d fortune in a similar way in New Bed ford, married Abby Rowland, of whom
 Hetty Robinson, the future mistress | of finance. was born. She was sent to a Quaker school on Cape Cod. and
 to a seminary in Boston, and got her
 first lessons in finance when her age ing father entrusted her with some of his books.
 She was just thirty years old when her father died suddenly, leaving her his nine millions, one million outright and the income from the other eight, the principal to be held in trust for her children. It is forgotten that Hetty Green, then Robinson, was a belle in New York society. According to her own stories she often danced
 however. she lived in a boarding
 house. and was so saving that rather
 than pay carfare she would pull a
 pair of heavy woolen stockings over
 her shoes and walk through the snow
 to parties.
 Almost at. the same time that her father died her aunt. Sylvia Ann How land, passed away, leaving several million dollars. It is said Hetty Rob inson had been brought up from child hood to count this money as hers, and that the aunt expressed the hope that Hetty would some day become, as she did, the richest woman in the country. The division of the aunt's estate, however. was not as expected. Three years after the aunts death Hetty Green appeared in the United States circuit court in Massachusetts with will which she wanted substituted
 for the one already probated. This will was in Mrs. Greens own hand writing, and some of the most famous experts of the day declared under oath their belief that the two sigma lures it contained were not made by the aunt but were traced by Hetty Green herself over an original sigma ture of Sylvia Ann Rowland
 The litigation is one of the most famous in court annals. After an ex- pense of S172,000, the case was dis missed on a technicality, An appeal
 was made to the supreme court of the United States, but while this was pend
 ing a private settlement was reached,
 From those days to the time of her death Hetty Green was involved in
 some law suit of other, asserting that