A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888-1982.

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A mind of her own; Helen Connor Laird laird
n. Scots
The owner of a landed estate.

[Scots, from Middle English lard, variant of lord, owner, master; see lord. and family, 1888-1982.

Laird, Helen.

U. of Wisconsin Wisconsin, state, United States
Wisconsin (wĭskŏn`sən, –sĭn), upper midwestern state of the United States. It is bounded by Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, from which it is divided by the Menominee Press

2006

508 pages

$34.95

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Wisconsin land and life

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Laird's portrait of her mother-in-law, Helen Connor Laird, interweaves the personal history with that of Wisconsin, where Helen C. Laird lived for almost all of her 93 years. Helen C. Laird was the daughter of William Duncan William Duncan may refer to:

William Duncan (missionary) (1832–1918), an English-born Anglican missionary.
William Addison Duncan (1836–1884), a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Connor, a major figure in Wisconsin's lumber lumber, term for timber that has been cut into boards for use as a building material. The major steps in producing lumber involve logging (the felling and preparation of timber for shipment to sawmills), sawing the logs into boards, grading the boards according to industry and politics at the turn of the 19th century, and the mother of Melvin Laird, Jr., US Secretary of Defense under Nixon.

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