Hetty+Green,+the+Richest+Woman+in+America+in+the+Gilded+Age

[|Henrietta "Hetty" Green](1834-1916) from National Women's History Museum.

She had a net worth of 100 million dollars when she died in 1916; a figure equal to $2.5 billion today.

See also [|Hetty Green entry on Wikipedia]

[|The Witch of Wall Street]from the blog, //Today I Found Out//

[|But Was She Really the Witch of Wall Street,] Library of Congress

See also, [|Henrietta Howland Green: Another Look at the Witch of Wall Street]

//The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age//. Janet Wallach, Anchor Books, 2013

Go here for [|Janet Wallach's talk about the book from BookTV]

The shows eight men and one woman sitting and standing around a table, each is identified with a Cabinet position: The figures are sitting on the table is a statue labeled "Golden Calf" and hanging on the wall are portraits of "Midas" and "Croesus". On the far left is a ticker tape machine.
 * J.P. Morgan as "Sec'y Navy",
 * Thomas W. Lawson as "Sec'y War",
 * Thomas F. Ryan as "Att'y Gen'l",
 * James J. Hill as "Sec'y Int.",
 * James H. Hyde as "Sec'y Com. and Lab.",
 * Russell Sage as "Sec'y Agric",
 * Henrietta "Hetty" Green as "Post Mistress Gen'l",
 * Andrew Carnegie as "Sec'y State", and
 * John D. Rockefeller as "Sec'y Treas";



[|16th Amendment to the Constitution: Federal Income Tax] (1913)

For more on wealth, income and power in American society, see
 * ==== United States History II.1 ====
 * ==== Economics 2.5 ====