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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.
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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