Hetty Green, American businesswoman and financier (born 1834)

Hetty Green

American financier (1834–1916)

Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green was an American businesswoman and financier known as "the richest woman in America" during the Gilded Age. Those who knew her well referred to her admiringly as the "Queen of Wall Street" due to her willingness to lend freely and at…