Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1916-07-07 | Page 2 | Mrs. Hetty Green is Dead

MRS HETTY GhEEN GREENIS lS DEAD was waa known as richest womanly Woma the world new york mrs hetty green known as the worlds wealthiest woman who was 80 years old died here july I 1 3 she had suffered three strokes of paralysis in the last two months tind nd for several weeks had been practically helpless hetty green was the worlds most remarkable mistress of finance wall streets estimates of mrs greens fortune range from to officials of the chemical national bank in which mrs airs green once made her downtown bead headquarters quart declined to hazard a guess con berning the size of her estate the richest woman in america 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 now new york she was born bom on november 21 1835 at new bedford Ded tord mass blass