Hetty green biography sampler

The first in a series of brief biographies of significant tycoons, this is an insight into the life and methods of one of the earliest and most influential business women in the US. It examines the source of her wealth, and her method of building upon that. It also profiles those who helped or thwarted her along the way.

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Part of a series of brief biographies of significant tycoons, this is an insight into the life and methods of one of the earliest and most influential businesswomen in the US. The author looks beyond the caricature image of a person in the public eye and aims to reveal the actual person under consideration. She was certainly no saint as she herself would have been among the first to admit, though perhaps not the very first but nor was she a financial demoness.

Unlike many of the tycoons of her day, Hetty did not create vast new industries, or play a significant role in world events. The bulk of her fortune ultimately but quietly found its way into the coffers of various charities and she left no monuments to her memory such as the palatial mansions of the Vanderbilts or the well-endowed educational institutions of Andrew Carnegie.