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{{short description|American missionary and temperance worker}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Margaret B. Denning
| image = Margaret B. Denning (Mosaics from India, 1902).png
| alt = 
| caption =
| birth_name = Margaret Weaver Boehme (or Beahm)
| birth_date = October 17, 1856
| birth_place = [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
| death_date = August 16, 1935
| death_place = [[Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles|Pacific Palisades]], [[California]], U.S.
| occupation = {{hlist|missionary|temperance activist|writer}}
| spouse = {{married|John Otis Denning|1886}}
| children = 3
| notable_works = ''Mosaics from India''
}}
'''Margaret B. Denning''' (October 17, 1856 – August 16, 1935) was an American missionary and temperance worker who spent 29 years in India. She was also the author two books, ''Mosaics from India'' (1902) and ''Dainty cookery for the home'' (1903).

==Early life and education==
Margaret Weaver Boehme (or Beahm) was born at [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]], October 17, 1856.<ref name="Cherrington-1925">{{cite book |last1=Cherrington |first1=Ernest Hurst |author-link1=Ernest Cherrington |title=Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem |date=1925 |publisher=[[American Issue Publishing House]] |location=[[Westerville, Ohio ]] |volume=2 |via=Internet Archive |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/standardencyclop02cher/page/794 |page=794 |chapter=DENNING, MARGARET BEAHM |access-date=27 December 2022 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>

The family moved to [[Canton, Illinois]] and she was graduated from its high school. Afterwards, she attended [[Illinois Wesleyan University]] (Ph. B., 1882).<ref name="Cherrington-1925" />

==Career==
Denning taught school until 1886.<ref name="Obit">{{cite news |title=Obituary, Margaret Weaver Beahm Denning. Died August 1935, Pacific Palisades, California. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115271227/obituary-margaret-weaver-beahm/ |access-date=27 December 2022 |work=The Pantagraph |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |date=23 August 1935 |pages=3 |language=en}}</ref>

She married Dr. John Otis Denning, M. A., on May 4, 1886. The couple were affiliated with the [[Presbyterian Mission Agency]].<ref name="Cherrington-1925" /> They received an appointment for missionary workin India by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church and arrived in [[Bombay]], December 1890;<ref name="Obit" /> they served in India for 39 years.<ref name="CA1935" /> She was stationed at [[Gonda, Uttar Pradesh|Gonda]], [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]], where she became active in temperance work in connection with her mission enterprises.<ref name="Cherrington-1925" />

In 1911, Denning was elected president of the National [[Woman's Christian Temperance Union]] (W.C.T.U.) of India, and she retained that office until 1919. For some years preceding her election as president, she had been corresponding secretary of the Union, which at that time had a membership of about 4,000. She was also connected with the [[International Organisation of Good Templars|Independent Order of Good Templars]], holding various positions in that body.<ref name="Cherrington-1925" />

After attending the World W.C.T.U. conference in London (1920), she stayed on for a few months to continue her temperance work in England. Over the next three years, she remained with the World W.C.T.U. in charge of correspondence with secretaries in 42 other countries.<ref name="Obit" />

Besides delivering frequent addresses, Denning wrote a number of temperance pamphlets, as well as a book entitled ''Mosaics from India''.<ref name="Cherrington-1925" />

==Personal life==
Denning was a member of the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]].<ref name="Obit" />

The Dennings had three sons, one of whom died at birth and two who died in 1905.<ref name="Obit" />

Margaret B. Denning died in [[Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles|Pacific Palisades]], [[California]], August 16, 1935.<ref name="Obit" /><ref name="CA1935">{{cite book | title = Christian Advocate : Pacific Edition |volume= 84 | pages = | oclc = 70992530 |year=1935 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZA0uAQAAIAAJ}}</ref>

==Selected works==
* ''Mosaics from India: Talks about India, Its Peoples, Religions and Customs'', by Margaret Boehme Denning (Fleming H. Revell Company, 1902)<ref name="Denning1902">{{cite book |last1=Denning |first1=Margaret Boehme |title=Mosaics from India: Talks about India, Its Peoples, Religions and Customs |date=1902 |publisher=New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z7snAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA1 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>
* ''Dainty cookery for the home: containing English, American and Indian dishes'' (1903)

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[[Category:1856 births]]
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[[Category:Temperance activists from Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Presidents of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union]]
[[Category:20th-century American women writers]]
[[Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers]]
[[Category:Presbyterian missionaries in India]]
[[Category:Female Christian missionaries]]
[[Category:Illinois Wesleyan University alumni]]
[[Category:People from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:American cookbook writers]]
[[Category:Daughters of the American Revolution people]]

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