Being born a girl was her first mistake.
That’s the perspective author Elle Mott believes her great-great grandfather had toward his only daughter, Mott’s maternal great-grandmother, Marie Conner Schmidt, a Lebanon resident.
Mott recently released her newest book about Schmidt, unveiling a history about a woman who ended up becoming one of Lebanon’s trailblazers in the mid-1900s.
Her nonfiction historical biography, “Marie Conner, A Leading Lady: Her Life and Civic Leadership in a Bygone Era,”…