This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WMB.2ACE/3892.3.1 Message Board Post: Brown Shoe Group is located at 3500 Maryland in Clayton, Mo. (314-854-4000) they are still in business so I doubt you would get much record info from them. I went to school in the early 1980's with descendants of the founder, but if I remember right they were from the female line, I do not remember their last name. I might be able to find out. The father was working for the company at the time.