Yale Bio/Obit
GEORGE BROOKS ARMSTEAD, Ph B 1906 Born May 30,
1883, New Haven, Conn , died March 7, 1950, Wethersfield, CT.
Father, James Benson Armstead, a carriage manufacturer in New Haven, son of James Benson and Elizabeth (Story) Armstead Mother, Louise (Brooks) Armstead, daughter of Herrick and Matilda (Doolittle) Brooks
Booth Preparatory School, New Haven Select course, University
Gymnastic Team, Alpha Chi Rho
Reporter New Haven Leader 1906-7, city editor New Haven Evening and Sunday Leader 1908-9, editor Lynn (Mass ) Evening News 1909-11, Sunday editor New Haven Union 1911-13, editor 1913-16,
city editor New Haven Journal-Courier 1916-18, editor Sunday section The Hartford (Conn ) Courant 1920-21, assistant managing editor 1921-24, managing editor 1924 until retirement 1940, news commentator WDRC (Hartford) 1943-46, an authority on Connecticut government affairs, editor administrative reports for State 1947-50
(State Services, Connecticut State Government), Y M C A secretary American Expeditionary Forces World War I, in publicity department
British Expeditionary Forces, Palestine and Egypt, 1918-20, president Connecticut circuit Associated Press, member American
Society of Newspaper Editors, Foreign Policy Association, Sons of the American Revolution, Yale Engineering Association, and Masonic order
Married (1) October 7, 1908, Brooklyn, N Y, Marion, daughter of Henry B and Emily Brinsmade (Grannis) Gorham Son James Gorham (B S Rensselaer 1932) Mrs Armstead died 1912 Married
(2) January 5, 1927, Oak Park, 111 , Frances Josephine Lakin (B A Univ Michigan 1914), daughter of Henry Robert and Jessie
Fremont (Lytle) Lakin Children George Brooks, Jr (B S. Univ Connecticut 1950), Jessie Louise (Russell Sage Coll Class of 1952)
Death due to myocardial infarction. Buried in Wethersfield
Cemetery
Contributor: Toni Doubleday
GEORGE BROOKS ARMSTEAD, Ph B 1906 Born May 30,
1883, New Haven, Conn , died March 7, 1950, Wethersfield, CT.
Father, James Benson Armstead, a carriage manufacturer in New Haven, son of James Benson and Elizabeth (Story) Armstead Mother, Louise (Brooks) Armstead, daughter of Herrick and Matilda (Doolittle) Brooks
Booth Preparatory School, New Haven Select course, University
Gymnastic Team, Alpha Chi Rho
Reporter New Haven Leader 1906-7, city editor New Haven Evening and Sunday Leader 1908-9, editor Lynn (Mass ) Evening News 1909-11, Sunday editor New Haven Union 1911-13, editor 1913-16,
city editor New Haven Journal-Courier 1916-18, editor Sunday section The Hartford (Conn ) Courant 1920-21, assistant managing editor 1921-24, managing editor 1924 until retirement 1940, news commentator WDRC (Hartford) 1943-46, an authority on Connecticut government affairs, editor administrative reports for State 1947-50
(State Services, Connecticut State Government), Y M C A secretary American Expeditionary Forces World War I, in publicity department
British Expeditionary Forces, Palestine and Egypt, 1918-20, president Connecticut circuit Associated Press, member American
Society of Newspaper Editors, Foreign Policy Association, Sons of the American Revolution, Yale Engineering Association, and Masonic order
Married (1) October 7, 1908, Brooklyn, N Y, Marion, daughter of Henry B and Emily Brinsmade (Grannis) Gorham Son James Gorham (B S Rensselaer 1932) Mrs Armstead died 1912 Married
(2) January 5, 1927, Oak Park, 111 , Frances Josephine Lakin (B A Univ Michigan 1914), daughter of Henry Robert and Jessie
Fremont (Lytle) Lakin Children George Brooks, Jr (B S. Univ Connecticut 1950), Jessie Louise (Russell Sage Coll Class of 1952)
Death due to myocardial infarction. Buried in Wethersfield
Cemetery
Contributor: Toni Doubleday
Yale Bio/Obit
GEORGE BROOKS ARMSTEAD, Ph B 1906 Born May 30,
1883, New Haven, Conn , died March 7, 1950, Wethersfield, CT.
Father, James Benson Armstead, a carriage manufacturer in New Haven, son of James Benson and Elizabeth (Story) Armstead Mother, Louise (Brooks) Armstead, daughter of Herrick and Matilda (Doolittle) Brooks
Booth Preparatory School, New Haven Select course, University
Gymnastic Team, Alpha Chi Rho
Reporter New Haven Leader 1906-7, city editor New Haven Evening and Sunday Leader 1908-9, editor Lynn (Mass ) Evening News 1909-11, Sunday editor New Haven Union 1911-13, editor 1913-16,
city editor New Haven Journal-Courier 1916-18, editor Sunday section The Hartford (Conn ) Courant 1920-21, assistant managing editor 1921-24, managing editor 1924 until retirement 1940, news commentator WDRC (Hartford) 1943-46, an authority on Connecticut government affairs, editor administrative reports for State 1947-50
(State Services, Connecticut State Government), Y M C A secretary American Expeditionary Forces World War I, in publicity department
British Expeditionary Forces, Palestine and Egypt, 1918-20, president Connecticut circuit Associated Press, member American
Society of Newspaper Editors, Foreign Policy Association, Sons of the American Revolution, Yale Engineering Association, and Masonic order
Married (1) October 7, 1908, Brooklyn, N Y, Marion, daughter of Henry B and Emily Brinsmade (Grannis) Gorham Son James Gorham (B S Rensselaer 1932) Mrs Armstead died 1912 Married
(2) January 5, 1927, Oak Park, 111 , Frances Josephine Lakin (B A Univ Michigan 1914), daughter of Henry Robert and Jessie
Fremont (Lytle) Lakin Children George Brooks, Jr (B S. Univ Connecticut 1950), Jessie Louise (Russell Sage Coll Class of 1952)
Death due to myocardial infarction. Buried in Wethersfield
Cemetery
Contributor: Toni Doubleday
GEORGE BROOKS ARMSTEAD, Ph B 1906 Born May 30,
1883, New Haven, Conn , died March 7, 1950, Wethersfield, CT.
Father, James Benson Armstead, a carriage manufacturer in New Haven, son of James Benson and Elizabeth (Story) Armstead Mother, Louise (Brooks) Armstead, daughter of Herrick and Matilda (Doolittle) Brooks
Booth Preparatory School, New Haven Select course, University
Gymnastic Team, Alpha Chi Rho
Reporter New Haven Leader 1906-7, city editor New Haven Evening and Sunday Leader 1908-9, editor Lynn (Mass ) Evening News 1909-11, Sunday editor New Haven Union 1911-13, editor 1913-16,
city editor New Haven Journal-Courier 1916-18, editor Sunday section The Hartford (Conn ) Courant 1920-21, assistant managing editor 1921-24, managing editor 1924 until retirement 1940, news commentator WDRC (Hartford) 1943-46, an authority on Connecticut government affairs, editor administrative reports for State 1947-50
(State Services, Connecticut State Government), Y M C A secretary American Expeditionary Forces World War I, in publicity department
British Expeditionary Forces, Palestine and Egypt, 1918-20, president Connecticut circuit Associated Press, member American
Society of Newspaper Editors, Foreign Policy Association, Sons of the American Revolution, Yale Engineering Association, and Masonic order
Married (1) October 7, 1908, Brooklyn, N Y, Marion, daughter of Henry B and Emily Brinsmade (Grannis) Gorham Son James Gorham (B S Rensselaer 1932) Mrs Armstead died 1912 Married
(2) January 5, 1927, Oak Park, 111 , Frances Josephine Lakin (B A Univ Michigan 1914), daughter of Henry Robert and Jessie
Fremont (Lytle) Lakin Children George Brooks, Jr (B S. Univ Connecticut 1950), Jessie Louise (Russell Sage Coll Class of 1952)
Death due to myocardial infarction. Buried in Wethersfield
Cemetery
Contributor: Toni Doubleday
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