Ronald Read worked as a gas station attendant and then a janitor in Brattleboro, Vermont. He held his coat together with safety pins.
Someone once offered to pay for his meal, assuming he could not afford it. When he died at 92, his estate was worth nearly $8 million - from decades of quietly buying stocks.
He left $4.8 million to the local hospital and $1.2 million to the library.
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