The Keystone State's wealthiest woman -- worth $3.2 billion -- spends her days breeding horses at a Chester County farm.
Mary Alice Dorrance Malone, of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, is the granddaughter of the inventor of the condensed soup formula -- the billion dollar idea that reshaped Campbell Soup Co. -- making her the company's largest shareholder and richest woman in Pennsylvania, according to rankings by Movoto, a real estate blog.
Another Pennsylvania woman, Susan Hirt Hage, of Erie, also made Movoto's list of top female earners in the Northeast. Hage is worth $2 billion, the rankings show.
She was the first woman to join the board of Erie Indemnity, a Pennsylvania-based insurance company that her father H.O. Hirt founded in 1925, according to Forbes.com.
But the Pennsylvania women's wealth pales in comparison to the country's top female earners, which include heiresses to the Wal-Mart fortune.
Christy Walton, of Wyoming, is worth an estimated $37.6 billion, while her sister-in-law, Alice Walton, is worth an estimated $33.5 billion, according to the rankings.
To see the full list of women, visit the Movoto Real Estate website.
