Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1912 — WORLD’S RICHEST WOMEN [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S RICHEST WOMEN

Mrs. S. G. Asher, the daughter of the late Mr. Harry Barnato, has become the legatee of a second million of money from the same source (her father settled the first million upon her on the occasion of her marriage to Mr. Asher). The acquisition of this second fortune places Mrs. Asher in the band of women who figure as the richest of their sex. The richest woman in the world is generally admitted to be Mrs. Hetty Green, with a fortune of between seventy and eighty millions at her command. Others who follow closely are: Mrs. Russell Sage, who received a fortune of $85,000,000, but has distributed much of it in charitable bequests. Mrs. Anne Weightman Walker, who is said to possess $60,000,000. Frau-von Bohlen, the daughter of Krupp, the German gunmaker, has property valued at $80,000,000. Mme. Creel, a Mexican lady, is said to have an income of nearly $5,000,000. The Marchionness of Graham is the richest British-born lady, for on the death of her father, the twelfth Duke of Hamilton, she came into an income of $570,000 per annum. The Duchess of Roxburghe was left $25,000,000 by her father, Mr. Ogden Goelet. The Baroness von Eckhardstein came this year into the second portion of her fortune left by her father, the late Sir John Blundell Maple, making her total income $330,000 per annum. The Countess Szechenyl, as Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, inherited $12,500,000.