The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1916-07-03
WORLDS RICHEST
WOMAN, AtTTY GREEN,
DIES At SONS HOME


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Was deeply affected by the loss OF his
mother. Eaid today
"" Qua Nsa not unexpected My
moih,s bad lived ,iEofous, on.r.
s'iio iifo. sho said Just before the
'hd ihat ihcr. VAS nothing for her
10 HFr"t She was a splendid typo VI
iho true. christian woman"
lirtty lioNltnd Green Was the
worlds most romafkiblo mistress of
huance. The fortune she has left is
close 10 TlOO.OOO,OoJ. The richest
Woman IN America. she lived aImost
"h husally as "a shop girl Her homo
was wherever rho chose for a Tina Ia
hang ber little black cape and bonnet,
often IN the hall bedroom ~ some
boarding house. or In some remoto
ANA modest fiat around New York.
Her eccentric extremes of economy
Ted 10 a popular misconcoption OF her
~ "so'f- made woman" AA "a mat
ter of fact hho was born rich. In
1860 she Inherited some $4,000. 900.
which accumulated until IN nifty
years II had multiplied nearly ten
times She also inherited family ira
ditlons which had been a pride for
three centuries. aud which she WAS
anxious to p"rpotuato In her children.
she wns born on Nov. 81, 1895, at
New Bedford. Mass This old mari.
time city was founded by her ancestor,
John liowland, u Puritan, who came
over on the Mayflower and who named
the place after Bedford, his family
home In England. In succeeding gen.
eratlons the Rowland family became
famous In the whaling industry and
shipping trade with China. Edward
Mott Robinson, who had also amassed
a fortune In q similar way In New he'd
ford. married Abby Rowland. Of whom
! Hetty Robinson was born. She was
sent to q Quaker school on Cape Cod
and to seminary In Boston. and got
I her first lessons In finance when her
agcing 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
! aud the income from the other eight.
the principal to be held In trust for
| her children. II lis forgotten that
Hetty Green. then Robinson. was a
belle in New York society. Accord
ing to her own stories. she "often
danced the whole night through"
! Even then. however. she lived In a
boarding house and was NO saving
that rather than pay cabfare sho
would pull a pair OF heavy woollen
stockings over her shoes and walk
through the snow to parties.
SHE iNHERiTS SEVERAL MILL.
IONS FROM AUNT.
Almost at the same time that her
father died, her aunt. Sylvia Ann
Rowland. passed away. leaving SOW
er,l million dollars. 1t is said Hetty
Robinson had been brought up from
childhood to count this money as
hers. and that the aunt expressed tho
hope that Hetty would some day be-
come, Az she did. the richest woman
In tho country.
Tho division of the aunt's estate,
however was not AS expected. Three
years after the aunt's death Hetty
Green appeared In the United States
Circuit Court in Massachusetts, with
a will which she wanted substituted
for the one already probated.
From those days to the time OF her
death Hetty Green was involved in
some law suit or other. asserting that
lawyers were forever trying to rob