Marie Augusta Oldham

Marie Augusta Oldham (1857–1938) was an India-born American assistant missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). She was also the first President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in Malaysia.

Early life Marie Augusta Mulligan was born in Sattara, Western India, in November, 1857. Her father was from Belfast, Ireland, and an officer in the British army on service in India. Her mother was born in India and was of the old "Butler" stock, also of Ireland. Her mother was early left a widow, with three daughters and one son to care for. Although accustomed to the ease and luxury of Anglo-Indian life, she recognized that, to raise her family for usefulness, her life of ease must cease. She opened a dressmaking and millinery establishment and was enabled to give her children a practical idea of life and a fair education, and to make them self-reliant.