 He fell in love with the secretary assigned to him, Vassar graduate Agnes Dale Locke, and the two were married on April 4, 1929.While on vacation in Europe, Crosby stopped drinking alcohol, becoming a teetotaler for the next seven years.Weathering the stock market crash of that fall, Crosby and his wife moved to McLean, Virginia, where Crosby bought an estate called "The Beeches".