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Green, Hetty (1834-1916), private banker, money lender, and eccentric  

Janet L. Coryell

Green, Hetty (21 November 1834–03 July 1916), private banker, money lender, and eccentric, also known as the Witch of Wall Street, was born Harriet Howland Robinson in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the daughter of Edward Mott Robinson, the owner of a prosperous whaling company, and Abby Slocum Howland, a member of one of the oldest and wealthiest families in New England. After the birth of her brother, who lived only a short time, Hetty’s parents sent her to live in her grandfather Gideon Howland’s household, where she was raised by her Aunt Sylvia. There she received her early education, reading the financial pages to her grandfather, whose sight was failing, and gaining a nascent understanding of financial markets. At age ten she attended a Quaker boarding school for three years, returning to New Bedford in 1847 after her grandfather’s death....

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Vanderbilt, Gloria Laura (20 February 1924–17 June 2019), socialite, fashion designer, and entrepreneur  

Ann T. Keene

Vanderbilt, Gloria Laura (20 February 1924–17 June 2019), socialite, fashion designer, and entrepreneur, was born in New York City, the only child of Reginald Vanderbilt, great-grandson of Cornelius (“Commodore”) Vanderbilt, a legendary nineteenth-century shipping tycoon, and Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, descended from a distinguished family of diplomats, judges, and a Civil War Union general. Reginald was a heavy-drinking heir to a railway fortune, a noted equestrian, and a playboy who was twenty-four years his wife’s senior. “Little Gloria,” as his daughter became publicly known, was a celebrity virtually from birth, heiress to a presumed fortune. Following Reginald Vanderbilt’s death in ...