This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HY.2ADE/1629.2 Message Board Post: I'm not sure it is the same Brown connection, but I recently found a letter written by my step-grandmother. She described how my grandmother's father came to Tulare Co. from NY via the railroad across Panama, to San Francisco, then to Tulare Co. She came with two boys, perhaps Clinton was one. That's about all that I know, but if it is the same Brown, I'd surely like to hear more about the history.