The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-03
HETTY GREEN, 82
 YEARS OLD, DIES
 AT HOME IN N. '.
Striking Figure in Finances of World Succumbs After
 Paralytic Shocks. HER YEARLY INCOME SAID TO BE MILLIONS Eccentricities, Coupled With Huge Fortune, Made Her
 Famous World Over.

New York, July 3.-Mrs. HettJ Green, known as the worlds veal thiest woman, who was S2 years old died here today. She had suffered three strokes of paralysis during the past two months, and for severa weeks had been virtually helpless.
 Her death occurred ct S:05 o'clock al the home of her son, Col. Edward H R. Green, at No. 2, on the corner o1 Central Park West, where Mrs. Green had lived lately in seclusion, except for her son and several Japanese ser wants and trained nurses.
 For several weeks past Mrs. Green had been unable to walk and had spent nearly all of her time in 8 wheel chair. Her son, Col. Green, and her daughter, Mrs. Matthews Astor Wilks, who were the only children, had been with her much of the time and it was recently reported that Mrs. Green had turned over all of her financial affairs to her sons charge.
 Hetty Green was the worlds most remarkable mistress of finance. The fortune she has left is close to $1O0,- O00, GOO The richest woman in America, she lived almost as frugally as shop girl Her home was wher- ever she chose for a time to hang her little black 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 "self-made woman.' As mat ter of fact she was born rich. In 1865 she inherited some $10,000,000, which accumulated upon itself until in 50 years it had multiplied nearly ten times. She also inherited family traditions which had been a pride for three centuries. and which she was anxious to perpetuate in her children.
 She was born at New Bedford. Mass, in November, 1884, about the goth. according to her testimony one time in court. This old maritime city was founded by her ancestor, John Rowland, Puritan who came over on the Mayflower and who named the place after Bedford, his family home in England. In succeeding genera tions the Rowland family became fa- nous in the whaling industry and shipping trade with China, and had an Virreproachable social standing. Edward Mott Robinson, who had also amassed fortune in similar way in New Bedford. married Abby How land, 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 Bos- ton, and got her first lessons in fnancS when her ageing father en- trusted her with some of his books.
 She was Just 30 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. Accord ing to -her own stories she often danced the whole night through D Even then, however, she lived in q boarding house and was so saving that rather than pay carfare, she would pull a pair of heavy woolen
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