A mind of her own : Helen Connor Laird and family, 1888-1982 /

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"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 electi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Laird, Helen, 1933-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, Terrace Books, ©2006.
Colección:Wisconsin land and life.
Temas:
Laird, Helen Connor, > 1888-1982.
O'Connor family.
Laird family.
Laird family
Laird, Helen Connor, > 1888-1982
O'Connor family
Pioneers > Wisconsin > Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life > Wisconsin.
Women political activists > Wisconsin > Biography.
Political activists > Wisconsin > Biography.
Pionniers > Wisconsin > Biographies.
Femmes activistes > Wisconsin > Biographies.
Activistes > Wisconsin > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
REFERENCE > Genealogy & Heraldry.
Frontier and pioneer life
Pioneers
Political activists
Women political activists
Wisconsin > Biography.
Wisconsin > Biographies.
Wisconsin
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations; Prologue; Acknowledgments; A Note on Some Family Names; 1. To Wisconsin; 2. Getting Ahead; 3. Marshfield; 4. Laona; 5. A Meeting of Titans: Robert La Follette and W.D. Connor; 6. Business, Politics, and Family: 1906-1907; 7. Risky Business: 1908-1909; 8. Promising Years: 1909-1913; 9. Melvin Robert Laird; 10. Illinois versus Wisconsin: 1913-1916; 11. War: 1917-1919 ; 12. Omaha: 1919-1923 ; 13. The Return: 1924-1931; 14. Surviving Losses: 1932-1936; 15. The Divided House: 1937-1939 ; 16. Endings and Beginnings: 1940-1944.
  • 17. Another Ending, Another Beginning: 1945-1946 18. In a Man's World: 1947-1950; 19. Regent: 1951-1959; 20. Family Matters: 1951-1959 ; 21. A Different World: 1960-1968 ; 22. The Mother, the Politician, and the Professor: 1969-1974 ; 23. Past and Present: 1975-1979; 24. Home: 1980-1982; Postscript; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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