The Witch of Wall StreetThe Witch of Wall
Streethttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/217271Magill
Quaker Collection2013-04-05T15:00:002013-04-05T15:30:00 April 5,
3:00PM Magill Quaker Collection Dig Into the Archives Series
event, a different topic every month WHEN: Friday - April 5,
2013 at 3:00 p.m. WHERE: Special Collections Reading Room in
Magill Hetty Howland Robinson Green (1834-1916), America’s first
great female financier, is a largely forgotten figure in the
annals of enterprise. Born into a wealthy Quaker family, Green
inherited one million dollars from the deaths of her father and
aunt, yet carried a grudge for both her entire lifetime. Setting
out to prove her financial acumen, Green, through sound
investing and pathological thrift, parlayed her inheritance into
$100 million (over $2 billion in today's dollars), becoming the
richest woman in America. While accumulating her vast fortune
during the Gilded Age and into the twentieth century, Green
exhibited numerous eccentricities, sensationaliz