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010 $a 2005010204
020 $a0299214508 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aCT275.L245$bL35 2006
100 1 $aLaird, Helen,$d1933-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84182215
245 12 $aA mind of her own :$bHelen Connor Laird and family, 1888-1982 /$cHelen Laird.
260 $aMadison, Wis. :$bUniversity of Wisconsin Press, Terrace Books,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $axvii, 508 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aWisconsin land and life
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 419-469) and index.
520 1 $a"Helen Connor Laird was the eldest child of William Duncan Connor, a major figure in Wisconsin's emerging hardwood lumber industry and in Wisconsin's turbulent turn-of-the-century political scene, instrumental in Robert La Follette's phenomenal success in the gubernatorial election of 1904 and his unsuccessful bid to gain Republican support for the 1912 presidential election." "Helen spent almost her entire ninety-three years in central and northern Wisconsin. Her vast reading and probing mind, however, connected her to the world, and her early life in frontier communities as well as her home influences, Presbyterian background, and education at Milwaukee Downer and the University of Wisconsin-Madison impelled her to lead. While engaging at times in the business that absorbed members of her competitive family and sharing with them an interest in politics, she pursued a life-long passion for education, serving on the University of Wisconsin board of regents in the 1950s. By the time her third son, Melvin R. Laird Jr., became secretary of defense in 1969, she had served in leadership positions in her community, district, and state even has her family had become one of Wisconsin's leading Republican dynasties."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aLaird, Helen Connor,$d1888-1982.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005028491
600 30 $aO'Connor family.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093978
600 30 $aLaird family.
650 0 $aPioneers$zWisconsin$vBiography.
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zWisconsin.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104198
650 0 $aWomen political activists$zWisconsin$vBiography.
650 0 $aPolitical activists$zWisconsin$vBiography.
651 0 $aWisconsin$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113981
830 0 $aWisconsin land and life.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005028494
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0511/2005010204.html
852 00 $bglx$hCT275.L245$iL35 2006
852 00 $bbar,stor$hCT275.L245$iL35 2006