![]() ![]() Slack thinks - has become a byword for stinginess and witchiness. Hetty: The Genius and Madness of Americas First Female Tycoon. Slack explains, she never "left monuments to herself" or built museums or libraries, like Carnegie, Morgan, Vanderbilt, or Fairhaven's Henry Huttleston Rogers, other magnates of the Gilded Age. Once described as the wealthiest woman in New Bedford, philanthropist Sylvia Ann Howland. And so, when the family line petered out, that $100 million estate went to strangers and distant relatives, exactly what Hetty Green tried so hard to avoid. Ned, who built the manor house on family property at Round Hill and became known as Colonel Green, was a good custodian of the family fortune, for all his expensive enthusiasms. ![]() Hetty Green disapproved of her son Ned's liaison with Mabel Harlow, a former prostitute she dubbed "Mabel Harlot," and they married only after she died, both too old for children. Slack thinks, is probably due to having been "too successful in her mission to protect her fortune." When her parents died, she was "the lone direct heir of the fortune" and, after protracted legal proceedings, she inherited more family money when her Aunt Sylvia died unmarried. ![]()
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