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127:, National President, hearing of New Jersey's work, appointed national meetings at Ocean Grove, which were held annually, till the state took up that work. Denman and Wittenmeyer went through the Southern States, holding meetings and opening the way for those who followed later on. Through all these years, Denman was in very frail health, many times returning from her trips to spend days or often weeks in her bed.
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117:. Mrs. Haines afterwards became Corresponding Secretary, and at one time treasurer of the state. Mrs. Nobles and her husband, Rev. John Nobles, with Denman, now made the tour of the state, especially the southern part, and Unions were established, or the nucleus of them, at various places along the coast.
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Circa 1848, she married Isaac Marsh Denman (1821-1866), a carriage manufacturer, who had an extensive business in New
Orleans. He was president of the Mechanics' Bank, Newark, when he died, on November 25, 1866. He left a large fortune. The couple had three sons: Isaac Rolfe, Abram Cross, and
121:, at that time consisting of only a few small houses and tents, was visited in 1877, and meetings were held there and in all the towns in that part of the state. With Mrs. Brundage, Denman visited Oxford Furnace, Belvidere, and towns away back in the country and among the mountains.
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unoccupied store on Newark's Broad Street. These meetings were never closed until about 1890, when many of the old people were dead and the evening meetings took the attention of the younger ones.
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Mary R. Denman died
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