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’s Philosophy.” Literary Digest, August 5, 1916.

Hodges, Leigh Mitchell. “The Richest Woman in America.” Ladies’ Home Journal, June 1900.

Lefevre, Edwin. “Mr. Williams and the Chemical National Bank,” publication unknown, 1902. From JP Morgan Chase Archives.

Menand, Louis. “She Had to Have It: The Heiress, the Fortune, and the Forgery.” New Yorker, April 23, 2001.

Nicholls, C. W. deLyon. “Hetty Green: A Character Study.” Business America, May 1913.

O’Quinn, Truemann. “Texas, Taxes, and Where Did Colonel Green Live?” Texas Bar Journal, September 1961.

Spencer, Miranda. “Money Mad.” Biography, August 1997.

Tolf, Robert W. “The Incredible Story of Hetty H. R. Green.” Wellesley, spring 1988.

Wyckoff, Peter. “Queen Midas: Hetty Robinson Green.” New England Quarterly, June 1950.


PAPERS

Anonymous, “An Open Letter: A Protest and a Petition, from a Citizen of California to the United States Congress,” 1895. Library of Congress.

Bolles, Mary Nims. Untitled paper with memories of Hetty’s daughter, Sylvia, by her lifelong friend. From the Arthur Lewis papers at Temple University.

Gelt, Joe, et al. “Water in the Tucson Area: Seeking Sustainability: A Status Report by the Water Resources Research Center, College of Agriculture, The University of Arizona,” 2002. Found at Web site: http://ag.arizona.edu/AZWATER/publications.

Medeiros, Peggi. “Hetty Howland Robinson Greens Birthplace.” Unpublished paper in the collection of the Kendall Institute, New Bedford Whaling Museum.

INDEX

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“Abuses in Medical Charity, The” (Brudenshaw), 113

Adams, Jack, 76

Adams, John Quincy (grandson), 56, 70

Adams, John Quincy (president), 56, 60

Agassiz, Louis, 56–58, 59, 62

Alexander, E. P., 109–10

Allen, Phebe, 39

Allen, Walter P., 212

Almy, Sylvia H., 39

ambergris, 4

Anderson, H. H., 140–41

Armour, Philip, 30, 32

Astor, John Jacob, 65, 175

“atom smasher” prototype, 213–14

“At the Million Dollar Tango Ball” (White), 191–92

Austin, Ann, 7

Bancroft, Mrs. Herbert, 202, 205

banks, 73–74, 135, 204, 216

failures of, 74; see also John J. Cisco and Son; panics, economic

in panic of 1907, 166, 167–69

Barling, Henry A., 43

lawsuit against, 138–43, 163

Bartlett, Sidney, 56, 58

Bellows Falls, Vt., 74, 75–86, 88, 89, 93–94. 99. 104, 105n, 115, 145–46, 157–61, 187, 223, 226, 234n, 236n

Episcopal cemetery of, 159–60, 193, 202–3, 219, 225

Hetty’s parsimony in, 77–80, 81–83, 95

schools of, 80–81

Vermont inheritance taxes and, 204–5, 206

see also Tucker House

Bennett, Edmund H., 52–53

Bigelow, Jacob, 39

Blackmer, William, 12

Bok, Edward, 153

Bolles, Mary Nims, 81, 83, 85, 145–46, 224, 226, 234n, 236n, 239n

bonds, 151, 167, 189

municipal, 136–37, 167

railroad, 73, 74, 88–89, 91–92, 96, 120–23, 127, 205

U.S., 70–71, 72, 73, 135

Boswell, James, 67

Boynton, M. P., 190

Bremer, Frederika, 21

Briggs, Ruth Lawrence, 216–17

Brooklyn, N.Y., xi, 104–8, 143–46, 149

Hetty’s lifestyle in, 104–7, 143

Hotel St. George in, 143, 148, 161–62

trolley workers’ strike in, 144–45

Brown, Eliza, 28, 37, 39, 45

Brownell, Fally, 22–23, 40

as beneficiary, 39, 45

Hetty’s dislike of, 28–29, 39, 45

Brownell, Frederick, 35, 40

Brudenshaw, J. H., 113–14

Buffet, Warren, xii

Byrd, Richard E., 213

Capitalists, 30–33, 101–4, 233n

abused workforce of, 31–32, 33

Civil War and, 30–31, 32–33

methods of, 31

philanthropy of, 33

public expectations of, 106

Carnegie, Andrew, ix, xi, 30, 102–3, 165

Civil War service avoided by, 32

Fifth Avenue mansion of, 106

philanthropy of, xi, 33

striking workers of, 31

Central Eureka Mine, 136

Central Pacific Railroad, 89, 119, 124

Charles W. Morgan (whaling ship), 214

Chemical National Bank, 89, 97, 114, 116–17, 122, 132–35, 139, 145, 163, 236n

cash reserves of, 133

courtesy as policy of, 134

establishment of, 132–33

Hetty’s mail delivered at, 151, 164

Hetty’s office at, 126, 134–35, 146, 151–53, 159, 161, 191

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