Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-07-06
HETTY GREEN DEAD;
REPUTED WORLDS
WEALTH|EST WOMAN
Inherited Millions, and Made
MilliOns-Went to EX-
tremes in Practicing
Economy.

VI whore sbo 1i,od for ,,o,,,, ,.aa.s
Funeral services yin ho hoId ,baro .,
11:3O oclock ON wodrcsd,, IL tho
Church of tbc tumor,al THO. n,i,, ho
conducted bv tho po, Ar,l,t,r - v-i1-
son. rastor Of the church Nrs croon,s
son and daurbtor win accor,nor,. ,ho
body.
She was lust 40 voars old who, bcr
father died suddenIv leaving nor his,
nino millions. one million outright aud
the income from the otnor eirbt tbo
principal f. be held i'm trust for hor
children. IT is foreotton that Hettv
Green. then Robinson. was q belle in
New York society. According to bor
own stories she "ofton danced tho
whole nil-ht through" Even then.
however. she lived in a boarding house
and was So saving that rather than
pay cahraro she would null a nair Of
heavy wooden stoclirgs over hcr shoes
and walk through tho snov TO pnrties.
Almost at the same timc her father
died. her aunt. sylvia Ann Rowland
pasSed away. Leaving several million
dollars. If is soid Ucttv Robinson had
been brought nm from childhood TO
count this money as hers. aud that the
aunt expressed the hope that Hctty
would some day become as she did the
| i'rn'St woman IN TN" country
Tine division of the aUnt's estate.
however. was not as expected. Three
years after tho aunts death Hetty
Green appeared in the United States
circuit court in Massachusetts with a
Will which she wanted substituted for
the one already probatcd. This will
was in Mrs GREEN'S own handwriting.
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'''""'N''"'.e stories 't'""i her oloseness.
'he was now she negotiated once fpr
Specia! engine to take her from ih,lade!-
PIMA to Sew York 50 that she might not
miss a 'hancc to make several thousand
dollars before tho close Of tho stool, t,x
chango \ rrico was rar,cd nv tho rau-
road cnrouan, for ar or,i,,, ana ,,,o zoos.
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