Sylvia Wilks

Sylvia Wilks
Sylvia (right) on her wedding day with her mother (left) and her husband Matthew Astor Wilks (center).
Born
Harriet Sylvia Ann Howland Green

(1871-01-07)January 7, 1871
London, England
DiedFebruary 5, 1951(1951-02-05) (aged 80)
NationalityAmerican
Spouse
(m. 1909; died 1926)
MotherHetty Green
Relatives

Harriet Sylvia Ann Howland Robinson Green Wilks (January 7, 1871 – February 5, 1951) was one of the wealthiest women in the United States.[1]

  1. ^ "Green Grist". Time. May 3, 1937. Archived from the original on January 25, 2012. Retrieved June 8, 2008. A surprise witness at the first session was tall, sharp-nosed, bespectacled Mrs. Hetty Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks, 66, whose right to her brother's fortune by terms of a will drawn nine years before his marriage has been challenged by Colonel Green's widow, redheaded Mabel E. Harlow Green, 66.