racy with which they were answered, may be inferred from the
fact that one trustee replied, "The women in our county are
mostly engaged in baby-tending," and that his response was
generally copied by the press as a manifestation of brilliant
wit. Although some commissioners felt their time too valuable to
spend in gathering information relative to the work of women,
from the reports of those who seriously undertook to canvass this
matter, a table has been arranged and published, which, though
incomplete, must be regarded, both in variety of occupations and
in the numbers of women registered, as a most favorable showing
for this Western State. The total number of women engaged outside
of home, in non-domestic and money-making industries, is 15,122;
the number of industries represented by them is 51. Add to these
the number of teachers, and we have over 20,000 women in the
trades and professions denied the ballot, that sole weapon
pledged by a republic to every citizen for the protection of
person and property.

Of the men and women prominent in this movement since 1860, whose
names are not mentioned in the first volume, the one meriting the
first place is beyond doubt Dr. R. T. Brown of Indianapolis. He
has the longest record as an advocate of suffrage to be found in
the State. As a speaker in the first Harrison campaign (1836) he
advocated suffrage without regard to sex. Engaged as a teacher or
inspector in the public schools in the early years, Dr. Brown
argued the adaptation of women to the teacher's profession, and
insisted that salaries should be independent of sex; and in many
individual cases where he had authority, women secured this
recognition before it was generally admitted even in theory to be
just.

When, in 1855, the Northwestern Christian (now Butler) University
was founded, Dr. Brown, as one of the trustees, advocated
coeducation; in 1858 he took the chair of natural science, and in
that branch taught classes of both sexes until 1871. In 1868 he
was active in organizing the Indiana Medical College on the basis
of equal rights to women, and filled the chair of chemistry until
1872; in 1873 he was appointed to the chair of physiology, which
he held until 1877, and then resigned because the board of
trustees determined to e