Charts Hetty Green's ascent up the pyramid of wealth to being identified as the richest woman in America. The first in a series of brief biographies of significant tycoons.

Hetty Howland Green (1834-1916), known in her later years as 'The Witch of Wall Street', was born in the whaling town of New Bedford, Massachusetts to Quaker parents. This biography charts Hetty Green's extraordinary ascent up the pyramid of wealth to a point where she was identified as the richest woman in America.