A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Family, 1888 - 1982
captures the public achievement and private pain of a remarkable
Wisconsin woman and her family, whose interests and influence
extended well beyond the borders of the state. The eldest child of
William Duncan Connor, a major figure in Wisconsin's emerging
hardwood lumber industry and its turbulent turn-of-the-century
political scene, Helen Connor Laird spent almost her entire
ninety-three years in central and northern Wisconsin. Nevertheless,
her voracious reading and probing mind connected her to the world.
Her early life in frontier communities, home influences,
Presbyterian background, and education, as well as the talents she
recognized in herself, impelled her to lead. Marriage, duty, and
four sons did not stem that desire. By the time her third child,
Melvin R Laird Jr, became secretary of defense in 1969, she had
served in leadership positions in her community, district, and
state. While business absorbed her competitive family, her own
interests lay elsewhere: in politics and education. Throughout her
life, she kept records of the evolving world she and her family
inhabited, and of her own emotional states. ""Remember, we are all
lonely,"" the ""closet poet"" said. Spanning almost a century, the
family's history speaks to the way we were and are: a stridently
materialistic nation with a deep and persistent spiritual
component.
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