Returned as reporter to the New Haven Leader in July 1906 [after graduation]. On the Leader was at different times, sporting editor, railroad and finance reporter, and finally city editor. He worked at the Leader at the same time as Sinclair Lewis.
 
October 7, 1908, at Brooklyn, NY, Marion Gorham married George Brooks Armstead at her home. She was the daughter of Henry Gorham of the United States Army Engineer offices at New York. He had moved his family to Brooklyn some years previously from West Haven... Just prior to her marriage she had been teaching stenography and commercial and business subjects in a Brooklyn business college.
 
The marriage was heartily endorsed by George's mother, as we can see from a letter Louise Matilda Brooks Armstead wrote her soon-to-be daughter-in-law:
 
"My dearest Marian -
George has given me permission to write you a few lines telling you how happy I am to learn of the closer relation he tells me now exists between you and him. I have always felt grateful that George had in you a friend. Having no brother or sister he especially needed such a friend, a friend who would sympathize with him in his ambition to become a broad true man, to make the mark of himself in every way at the same time to be above everything in any way dishonest or beneath the dignity of a pure, true man. How glad I shall be to feel that I have someone to help me, someone whose difference will be even greater than mine in all these things.
Dear Marian I am selfish. I shall be so glad to have the right to love and care for you, to feel that I have in you a friend nearer than anyone outside my husband and George. I shall strive to help George become more and more worthy of your love and confidence and to be myself so truly your friend that you will never regret the right you will give us to love you. There are many things I would like to talk with you about but perhaps in the not far distant future I may have the opportunity. Mr. A would join me in what I have said of here.
Dear Marian I am most sincerely and lovingly your friend.

happily married

Marian wrote this note to her husband the following spring:
 
"To my husband, May 30, 1909.
Today is your birthday, and I should like to give you so many things that I know you want. If love would buy gifts, you should have a house boat, a sail boat, a newspaper, a year's vacation, a trip abroad, and lots of other things that I wish I could give you.
Oh, darling, I love you so much. I want to be such a good wife to you, so that you can never love me less than you did when you married me.
I want to give you another section for the bookcase for this birthday, but there seemed to be so many other things that we need the money for this month, I thought it would be better to wait till a little later to get it. So that is my present to you, and I'm going to get it just as soon as I can.
We have had lots of good times on Decoration Days, haven't we? But we have never been so really happy as we are this year, even if we can't celebrate it in the way we often have.
I hope this new year of your life will be the happiest you have ever spent, and that you will have health and success. You are all the world to me, and you know
     'Our hopes, our fears, our aims are one,
     Our comforts and our cares.'
So whatever of happiness and success the years bring to you I want to share with you, and when disappointments and discouragements come, I want to sympathize with and comfort you.
Your are a good, true man, and I thank God for giving me such a good husband whom I love more and more all the time.
 
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References

Source material for the above

• The Armsteads Look Back in 1940 (unpublished), by Geroge Broks Armstead
• Letters handed down to James Gorham Armstead