it was hetty green. and he became enraged. so much so that her mother took to the bed and hetty was sent to live with her grandfather and her mother sister, her aunt. she knew that the only way to gain her father's love was to earn her because her father was obsessed with money. he said so himself. her grandfather taught her to read the newspapers and business news and the stock and bonds in the newspapers, which, she was a little girl. as soon as she could read. at the age of eight years old, she opened her own account of the savings bank in town. then she was sent off to a quaker boarding school, where again, she was taught about risk and taught about what to eat and how she should eat what was put before her. she did not either, she will be served at until it was gone. she was taught to respect the girls in her class. with her tuition, it was paying for those of the poor girls. and the strange way of her family, she was sent to a fancy finishing school in boston. were she was taught to dance well and to become a witty conve

green or be like hetty green.es? >> so what happened to her wealth? >> it, well, it went to her son and daughter, and then when they died, it was distributed amongst hundreds of heirs because that was the original plan. if there were no more heirs, that it would go, be spread around the family, distant, distant cousins who didn't even know they were related to her. [laughter] her name when she was born was hetty hallins robertsons. they were a big family in new england. that's where it went. yeah. >> so her children were not famous in any way? >> her son was quite well-known. he was -- she asked him to buy a small branch of a bankrupt railroad in texas in the 1890s, and he turned it into the most successful small railroad, the texas midland railroad, in the state, and then he did a number of things. he went back to new bedford, built a brand new house on the family property, and turned it into a center for radio technology and meteorology, gave it to the united states government during world war ii, and so he was