Henrietta "Hetty" Howland Robinson Green (November 21, 1834 - July 3, 1916) was an American businesswoman, remarkable for her frugality during the Gilded Age, as well as for being the first American woman to make a substantial impact on Wall Street. Wikipedia
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"For whatever it may be worth, Hetty was not a Vermonter by birth. She was born Henrietta Howland Robinson at New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1835. Her family had made a fortune in the whaling industry and had become completely obsessed with money. The www.vtonly.com/loredec9.htm
