Ancestry of
Hetty Green

“The Witch of Wall Street”

Henrietta Howland "Hetty" Robinson

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Edward Mott Robinson 
  • Mother:
  • Abby Slocum Howland   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Nov 1834 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Jul 1916 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • Hetty Green, aka “The Witch of Wall Street.”

    Hetty was labeled the “Richest Woman in America” during the what is known as the Gilded Age of America. Due to her well-known miserliness, the Guiness Book of World Records labeled her as the “World's Greatest Miser.”

• Marriages for Henrietta Howland "Hetty" Robinson

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  • Spouse:
  • Edward Henry Green
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Jul 1867

• Sources for Henrietta Howland "Hetty" Robinson

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 193.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 17.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 621.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 43.
  • ⁵ Wikiepedia, "Hetty Green", (accessed 12/31/2014).