Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1902 — HETTY GREEN’S HUSBAND DIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HETTY GREEN’S HUSBAND DIES.

Decedent Was First American to Make a Fortune in the Philippines. Edward H. Green, husband of Mrs. Hetty R. Green, the richest woman in America, died at the Green home in

Bellows Falls, Vt., after an illness of several months. He was 81 years old. Mrs. Green has been at Bellows Falls constantly the last few weeks, and Miss Sylvia Green has been with her father all through his sickness. Mr. Green was born in Vermont, but early In life

left that State to seek his fortune. He found it at Manila, the capital of the Philippines. He resided in that city for seventeen years, and left it with $1,000,000. He then settled in New York, where he engaged In Wall street speculations, at first with considerable success. Hetty Green was at that time Miss Harriet R. Robinson, a society belle and a woman of striking personality and beauty. She was even then reputed to be worth something like $10,000,000. Naturally she had scores of suitors. Green entered the lists and carried off the prize. He was then a handsome man and apparently destined to become a very successful one. Before their marriage an ante-nuptial contract was signed and sealed, by which Mr. Green agreed that his wife’s fortune should not be liable for his debts and obligations, or for any of their joint expenses. For seme time after their marriage the Greens lived in London, where their two children were born, but In 1872 they returned to New York. Mr. Green was reputed to be a shrewd and level-headed financier, but Mrs. Green, who is now about 70 years old, early proved herself the better financier of the two. He lost his fortune. She doubled and trebled hers. The British government him decided to raise the pay of its private soldiers to 25 cents per day for two year enlistments and to 37 cents per day for eight years' service.

EDWARD GREEN.