Hetty Robinson was born in 1834. When her parents died, she was thirty year old. They left her $10 million ($185 million in today's dollars.) She was very good at business and soon made more miney. Herry was famous as the richest woman in the United Stades, but she was also famous because she was very stingy.
Even when she was young, she was stingy. For instance, on her twenty-first birthday, she refused to light the candles on her birthday cake because she did not want to waste them. The nextbday, she cleaned the candles and returned them to the store to get a refund.