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The total female population of the present area of Ohio in 1800—three years before it entered the Union, was approximately 15,000. The total female population in 1930 (last Federal Census) was 3,285,556.

This total represented an increase of 15.4%, as compared with the total female population of 1920. A commensurate increase as from 1930 to 1940 would show a total female population for Ohio of 3,768,389.

In 1930 the number of Ohio women working in all classifications—totaled 539,606. An increase of 15% were this estimate justified, would make this total 619,546 for 1940. But since indications do not point to a total increase but on the contrary, to a possible falling off in female employment since 1930, it seems best to accept, as the closest estimate of female employment in Ohio at the present writing—March, 1939—the following group totals, which are as of 1930.

So now let us see what these Ohio women now employed outside the home, are doing; what their fore-runners did to pave the way; and what their Ohio sisters whose civic, social, educational and welfare service has been volunteer and part time, have been able to accomplish.

It would be hard to find a more intriguing story than that of REBECCA GALLOWAY of Green County, as this story of the near-bride of the great