ion to her profession she has secured the
respect and social recognition of the community in which she
moves. As an avowed friend of suffrage, whose word in season is
never lacking, Dr. Swain carries a knowledge of our principles
into circles where it would otherwise slowly penetrate. Dr. Mary
Wilhite of Crawfordsville ranks with the best physicians of that
city. In her practice she has gained a competence for herself and
disseminated among her patients a knowledge of hygienic laws that
has improved the health and the morals of the community to which
she has ministered. She, too, advocates political equality for
woman. Dr. Sarah Stockton of Lafayette settled in Indianapolis in
the autumn of 1883, and was soon, on the petition of leading
citizens, including both men and women, appointed as physician to
the Woman's Department of the Hospital for the Insane. Her
professional labors at the hospital and in general practice
indicate both learning and skill. In November, Dr. Marie Haslep
was elected attendant physician at the Woman's Reformatory, a
State institution having some four hundred inmates, where her
services have been characterized by faithfulness and caution.

Elizabeth Eaglesfield, a graduate of the law department of
Michigan University, was admitted to the bar of Marion county in
the spring of 1885, and is the first woman to open an independent
law-office in this State.

Very few women have served in the ministry. The only one who ever
secured any prominence in this profession was Miss Prudence
LeClerc, who was pastor of the Universalist church in Madison in
1870-71, and served parishes at different points in
south-eastern Indiana until her death in 1878. Miss LeClerc
frequently spoke at suffrage conventions, and called meetings
wherever she preached, instructing the people in the philosophy
of this reform.

To obtain accurate statistics as to the professions and
industries is extremely difficult, as the year 1881 was the first
in which the State considered women at all. That year the head of
the bureau of statistics sent to each town and county
commissioner certain sets of questions relative to women's
occupations. The grace with which they were received, the
seriousness with which they were considered, the consequent
accu