Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW BEDFORD — The "Witch of Wall Street" is back on the streets of the Whaling City. "She was brilliant," said Irene ...

New Bedford's 'Witch of Wall Street' Hetty Green is set to be the main protagonist in a new Marie Benedict novel.

Hetty Green was once the richest woman in America, but her obsession with money came with a painful cost. She survived a forged-will scandal, outplayed banks and railroads, and became known as the ...

She has been called a skinflint,a tightward, a penny pincher, a curmudgeon, a parsimonious hoarder, miserly, and, lest we forget, a witch. Perhaps the least negative of the terms used to describe her ...

At the recommendation of one of my clients, I'm reading a new book, The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age, by Janet Wallach. Each night as I read, I am fascinated by this woman ...

The Kalamazoo Gazette is reprinting selected Diether Haenicke columns through the end of the year. Haenicke died Feb. 15. This column was first published on April 12, 2006. In today's parlance, we ...

Rich, pathologically frugal and shrewd, Hetty Green transformed a handsome inheritance into a $100 million fortune. When she died in 1916, that was the equivalent of $1.7 billion today. She ...

'Making money was the great object of her life' Green was worth at least $100 million when she died in 1916 Book paints more nuanced picture of the 'Witch of Wall Street' Nearly 100 years after Hetty ...

Peg-legged, pleasure-loving Edward Rowland Robinson Green died at the Lake Placid Club last June at 67, his wealth estimated between $40,000,000 and $100,000,000. He was the son of Hetty Green, once ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW BEDFORD – New Bedford's own Hetty Green, the Gilded Age financier once known as the "Witch of Wall Street," is headed back ...