In a time when women were expected to align themselves with their homes and families, Hetty Green decided to make an exception to this. Hetty became a shrewd investor and went on to amass an eye-watering fortune in a man's world, becoming one of the richest people in America. Hetty Green, came out as America’s richest woman excelling in all front. Known to be stingy with her money, Hetty refused to get married to any man who does not have money of his own. On getting married to a wealthy man, Hetty refused to bail her husband out of his debt even though she has the money. Thus, the husband declared bankruptcy. So stingy was Hetty that she earned the sobriquet “Witch of Wall Street” which came after the death of her husband, when she started wearing mourning clothes till she died. Hetty took her stinginess to another level to an extent she wouldn’t seek medical attention for herself or her children because of the cost. This is the story of Hetty Green that the Guinness Book of Records would label “History’s Greatest Miser”
In a time when women were expected to align themselves with their homes and families, Hetty Green decided to make an exception to this. Hetty became a shrewd investor and went on to amass an eye-watering fortune in a man's world, becoming one of the richest people in America. Hetty Green, came out as America’s richest woman excelling in all front. Known to be stingy with her money, Hetty refused to get married to any man who does not have money of his own. On getting married to a wealthy man, Hetty refused to bail her husband out of his debt even though she has the money. Thus, the husband declared bankruptcy. So stingy was Hetty that she earned the sobriquet “Witch of Wall Street” which came after the death of her husband, when she started wearing mourning clothes till she died. Hetty took her stinginess to another level to an extent she wouldn’t seek medical attention for herself or her children because of the cost. This is the story of Hetty Green that the Guinness Book of Records would label “History’s Greatest Miser”