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, spring 1988.
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, August 5, 1916.
Hodges, Leigh Mitchell. “The Richest Woman in America.”
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, June 1900.
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, September 1961.
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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, 12
7, 20
5
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
shareholders of, 133
Chicago, Ill., 115–18, 131, 156, 208
loans to churches in, 189–90
real estate holdings in, 115–16, 135–36, 139, 187–88, 204
Chicago Times
, 117
child labor, 31–32
Choate, Joseph, 142
cholera, 11
churches, loans to, 189–90
Cisco, John A., 88–91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 99
Cisco, John J., 88, 90, 97, 99
Civil War, 74, 101–2, 109, 137
capitalists and, 30–31, 32–33
greenback notes and, 72–73
New Bedford in, 23–24, 28
Clifford, John H., 23–24, 64
Clifford, Nathan, 64, 68–69
Colquitt, O. B., 185–86
Comer, George N., 61–62
Committee of Trust Companies, 168–69
Conde, Lisa, 236n
Congress, U. S., 11, 119, 120, 158
Connecticut River Railroad
Company, 115
Cortelyou, George B., 168–69
cotton boll weevil, 130
Crapo, William Wallace, 15, 48, 70–71, 157, 236n
Crocker, Charles, 119
Daggett, Mabel Potter, 170–71
Dart, Christopher, 125
Davis, Abner, 34, 43, 139, 140–41
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, 168
Dewey (pet dog), 150, 153, 154,
155–56, 182
, 237n
Douglass, Frederick, 5
Dreiser, Theodore, 144–45
Drew, Daniel, 166n
Eastman, Arthur, 33
Edward VII, King of England, 19, 196, 233n
Eliot, Thomas Dawes, 39
Elmendorf, Augustine, 192–93
Emery, William, 10, 17, 71, 204, 232n, 236n
England, 66–74, 105n, 212, 234n
Essex
, 9
Evans, Benjamin, 5
Federal Reserve banking system, 169, 237n
Fisher, Mary, 7
Fisk, Jim, 30, 102
Flagler, Henry M., 30, 103
Flynn, John T., 73
Foote, Frederick W., 88–91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99
forgery allegations, 54, 60, 65, 66, 69, 233n
Forty
Years of American Finance
(Noyes), 101, 235n, 237n
Fox, George, 6
Frank, Isaac, 161
Gahagan, Charles, 156
Gates, Bill, xii
Georgia Central Railroad, 108–10, 123
Gibbs, Moses, 11
Giovanni del Drago, Prince Don, 174–75
gold, 70–71, 73, 133, 136
Goodspeed’s Book Shop, 210
Gordon, John Steele, x, 231n, 237n
Gordon, Maria, 43
Gordon, William A., 36–38, 39, 47,
157
as beneficiary, 41, 42–43, 47–48, 70
laudanum administered by, 37, 41, 45, 52. 53
as trustee, 41, 43, 48, 52, 70
Gould, Jay, ix, 30, 102, 106, 124
Gray, Pardon, 22, 27
as beneficiary, 40, 52, 69
Great Depression, 211–12, 216, 237n
Green, Anna, 76, 77–80
Green, Edward Henry, 48–50, 52, 64–74, 156–61, 181, 193, 225, 233n
as allegedly murdered, 162
background of, 48–49, 75–76
in Bellows Falls, 74, 75–80, 84–86
court testimony of, 51, 65
death of, 158–61, 162, 163
in England, 66–74
estate of, 160
financial difficulties of, 89–91, 93, 94, 95, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 131–32, 160
fortune of, 50, 160
funeral of, 159–60
Hetty’s introduction to, 48, 49
Hetty’s relationship with, 49–50, 64–65, 78, 79, 100, 131, 156–58, 159
Hetty’s wedding to, 65
in Hoboken, 156–57
marital separation of, 100, 131
obituary of, 160–61
in Philippines, 48–49, 76
prenuptial agreement of, 66
son’s medical care and, 84–85
Texas Midland directorship of, 131–32
tombstone of, 203
as Wall Street trader, 85–86
Green, Edward Howland Robinson “Ned,” 68, 80, 97, 137, 143, 179, 196, 200–201, 202, 208–21, 225
appearance of, 112, 218
as auto racer, 185
business fantasies of, 114, 116–18
in Chicago, 115–18, 131, 208
collecting of, 210–11
death of, 213, 219
Easter egg hunt of, 215
electric car of, 213
estate of, 219–21
first job of, 115
funeral of, 219
and Hetty’s baptism, 192–93
as Hetty’s business assistant, 182, 186–89
as Hetty’s protégé, 111–12, 114–18, 123, 125–31
Hetty’s relationship with, 84, 113, 114–15, 235n
Hetty’s strokes and, 198–99
as honorary colonel, 185–86, 215
Huntington’s threat against, 126, 235n-36n
ill health of, 216, 218–19
impotence of, 216
inheritance of, 205, 206
investment strategy of, 211–12
leg amputation of, xi, 114, 235n
leg injury of, 83–85, 104, 112–15
medical care of, xi, 84–85,
113
–14, 235n
pet dogs of, 217–18
philanthropy of, 215–16, 217
political activities of, 183–85
private yacht of, 208–9
railroad interests of, 118, 125–31, 158
at Round Hill,
see
Round Hill mansion and estate
scientific interests of, 129–30, 213–14
social life of, 130–31, 220
spending spree of, 208–17
Star Island estate of, 215, 216
strict allowance of, 118, 130–31
tax avoidance of, 215, 220–21
in Texas, 118, 123, 125–31, 156, 158, 159–60, 173, 181, 182–86, 215, 219, 220–21
“wards” adopted by, 216–17
wedding of, 208
will of, 219, 220
Green, Frank, 160
Green, Henry Atkinson, 76
Green, Hetty Howland Robinson:
appearance of, 13–18, 19, 27–28, 50, 65, 77, 95, 154
beauty treatments of, 172, 237n
beneficiaries of, 204, 205
birth of, 11, 12
black reticule carried by, 137, 163–64, 195
black veil worn by, 152, 169
boarding schools of, 16, 19, 20
childhood of, 1–3, 6, 13–17
death of, 180, 199–202
divine retributions forecast by, 157
early business education of, 3, 16–17, 44. 111
Episcopalian baptism of, 192–93
estate of, 204–8, 211
fashionable clothing of, 19, 176, 179. 196
fortune of, ix, xii, 8, 22, 70–71, 72–74, 86, 90, 135–37, 167, 204, 219–20, 226
foul language of, 18, 77, 95
funeral of, 202–3
guns owned by, 126, 161–63, 235n-36n
as heiress, 14, 17, 22, 33, 43–44, 48, 70–71, 72, 73, 135, 138–43, 205
at Howland family reunions, 14
infant brother’s death and, 3, 13–14
investment strategies of, ix, 72–74, 108–10, 115, 120–23, 135–37, 166–67, 211
memorabilia stored by, 194–96, 238n
as moneylender, ix, 9, 135, 136–37, 155, 167–68, 189–90, 236n
nursing skills of, 71–72, 85, 155, 156, 159
obituaries of, 200–202
parsimony of, xi-xii, 7–8, 14–16, 25–27, 28–29, 49. 77–80, 81–83, 84, 88, 94–95, 104–7, 113–14. 118, 134–35. 137. 143. 151. 152, 155–56, 208, 235n