She initially worked in the drafting department, before being promoted to Junior Bridge Engineer.

The Shanghai Times hailed her as "Woman Bridge Builder, in spite of her youth, is as good a civil engineer as any man in the United States".

The replies were notable for the number which stated 'this university does not have and never expects to have any women engineering students'.

Despite the great number of negative replies it turned out that there were about 200 women students in engineering courses.

[1][2][3][6][7][8][9][10] Melton married Dr. Archibald Shepard Merrill on 26 August 1922 in Alameda, California.