The couple wed four years later, in 1900. Lilian, a suffragette and one of New Jersey's first female journalists, was working as a reporter for the News when Howard joined the staff. In 1896, Howard was hired as a reporter for a prominent New Jersey newspaper, The Newark Evening News. Howard and Lilian Garis got their start in the writing business as journalists. Lilian was an avid writer from a young age and wrote her own "Woman's Page" for a city paper as a teenager. Lilian McNamara was born in 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Irish immigrants. Howard's family moved to Syracuse, New York when he was a young child and later relocated to Newark, New Jersey when Howard was in his teens. Howard Roger Garis was born on Apin Binghamton, New York. Howard Garis, Uncle Wiggily's Story Book, 1921 "And half the fun of nearly everything, you know, is thinking about it beforehand, or afterward" By Andrew Grim (UMass Public History Program) and edited by Janet Marquardt (Amherst Historical Commission) Text
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