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Hetty Green

Hetty Green, born in 1834, was one of the first women to make a fortune on Wall Street. Popularly known as the "Witch of Wall Street," due to her penny-pinching ways, people rumored that she only owned one dress. Married to silk trader Edward Green, Hetty turned a sum of of 6 million into 100 million by the time of her death. When she died, she was believed to be the richest woman in America.

One investor and director on the AMC board was a man named Edward H. Green, who was the husband of one of the richest and most publicized women in the country, Hetty Green. The Greens lived for a while in Jackson, but in 1881 after a relatively unsuccessful production period at the mine, Hetty banished her husband and closed the project.

Despite all of the obstacles and stereotypes she faced, Green was a peer with the best male financiers of the time and helped open the way for women in finance for decades after. She died in 1916 in New York City and her vast fortune was willed to her two children.

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Information, photographs courtesy of the Amador County Archives, The Historical Marker Database, and the Chronicling America Database