Hetty_ The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon - Charles Slack [119]
abolitionist movement of, 5
cholera epidemic in, 11
in Civil War, 23–24, 28
fires in, 11–12
Hetty’s inherited house in, 20, 25
Home for Children in, 34, 40, 70
money shortage in, 11
Oak Grove Cemetery of, 44
population of, 5
prosperity of, 4–5, 11, 18, 40
public library of, 5, 40, 70, 226
Quakers in, 5, 6–8, 16
red-light districts of, 5
schools of, 5, 16
as Sylvia Howland’s beneficiary, 34, 35, 40, 47–48, 69–70
whale oil odor in, 2
whaling industry in, 2–4, 7, 8–9
Newpost, R.I., 108, 147–48, 156, 171–72, 173
New York, N.Y.:
Fifth Avenue mansions in, xi, 103–4, 106, 107, 136, 147, 158, 171, 235n
gun permits issued by, 161–63
Hetty’s debut in, 18–20
Hetty’s loans to, ix, 137, 167
panic of 1907 in, 167
New York Stock Exchange, 74, 91, 96
Niblo, Frank, 143
Nicholls, C. W. deLyon, 47, 190–91
Nims, Mary, sec Bolles, Mary Nims
Norris, Frank, 119, 120
Noyes, Alexander, 101, 235n, 237n
Octopus, The (Norris), 119, 120
Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, 115
Painter, Henry M., 198, 199
Palfrey, Francis W., 56
panics, economic, ix, 72–73
of 1857, 133
of 1873, 74
of 1893, 144
of 1907, 166–69, 191, 237n
Pascal, Henry S., 218, 219
Pease, Zephaniah, 5
Peirce, Benjamin, 56, 62, 63
Peirce, Charles, 62–63
philanthropy, xi, 33
of Annie Leary, 65, 107–8, 191
Hetty’s anonymous, 190–91, 200–201
of Ned Green, 215–16, 217
Philpott, A. J., 201
Plaza Hotel, 176, 181–82
pork futures, 32
Potter, Wilbur, 189, 211
Price, Kezia R., 35–36
Pulitzer, Joseph, 106–7
Puritans, 7
Quakers, 5–8, 14, 16, 49, 71, 99–100, 106, 190
Quill, Dan, 220
Quinlan, William J., Jr., 122
railroad bonds, 73, 74, 88–89, 91–92, 96, 120–23, 127, 205
railroads, 115, 135, 145, 204
development of, 102, 129
land rights of, 119–20, 125–26
standardized time and, 31
in Texas, 118, 120–23, 124–32, 158
transcontinental, 89, 102, 119
see also Huntington, Collis P.; specific railroads
Reed, S. C. G., 129, 235n
rheumatism cure, 152–53
R. L. Day and Company, 211–12
Robinson, Abby Howland, 9–11, 12–13, 14. 33, 44
childbirths of, 12, 13
death of, 20, 21, 22, 25
fortune inherited by, 10, 17, 20, 25
Robinson, Edward Mott, 1–3, 9–11, 12–14, 15, 23, 24, 49, 50, 212
as allegedly murdered, 164
background of, 8
as beneficiary, 40–41, 42, 48
business of, 2–3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 17, 23, 24, 38, 43, 123
cheap cigars smoked by, 1–2
death of, 43, 48, 64–65. 139
estate of, 43–44, 73, 135, 138–43, 163, 196, 205
Hetty’s relationship with, 1–2, 3, 6, 16–17, 18, 20, 44, 111, 195–96
Hetty’s trust fund from, 43–44, 73, 138–43. 205
infant son’s death and, 3, 13–14
marriage of, 9–10
nickname of, 1, 17
residence of, 10–11, 12–13, 20
weak eyesight of, 3, 16
Robinson, Isaac Howland, 13–14
Robinson, William, 8
Rockefeller, Frank, 32
Rockefeller, John P., ix, xii, 30, 32, 33, 103
Round Hill farm, 14, 21, 22, 25, 34, 37. 38. 44, 210
Round Hill mansion and estate, 209–10, 212–15, 216, 219, 221, 223, 238n-39n
Russell, Sturgis and Company, 48–49
Sage, Russell, 103, 133, 188–89
Sawyer, George A., 61
Sayre, Lewis A., 113
Schieren, Charles A., 144
Schmid, Josephine, 175
Serrano y Domínguez, Francesco, duke de la Torre, 173
shell corporations, 31
Sherman, Hepsa, 39
Sister Carrie (Dreiser), 144–45
Smith, James and Michael, 155, 236n
Smith, Nelson, 98, 99
Southern Pacific Railroad, 119–20, 125, 158, 212
sperm whales, 4, 9
Spinelli, Mrs. Pasquale, 192
spiritualism, x
Stanford, Leland, 119
Star Island estate, 215, 216
Stern House, 136
strikes, 31, 144–45
Strobech, Maria E., 207
Sturges, Philemon F., 179
Swett, Samuel W., 59–60
Tarpon Club, 184
taxes, 104, 135, 149, 150, 215
inheritance, 204–6, 220–21
Taylor, Bayard, 21
Texas, 156, 159–60, 173, 181, 182–86, 215, 219, 220–21
railroads in, 118, 120–23, 124–32, 158
Republican Party in, 183–84
Texas Central Railway Company, 127
Texas Midland Railroad Company, 127–32, 203, 212, 235n
Ned Green’s improvements to, 128–29, 131
requests for free passes on, 130
Texas World’s Fair Commission, 184–85
Thaxter, Caleb, 12
Thomas, B. F., 64