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/WMB.2ACE/3892.3.1.1 Message Board Post: If you could find anything, I would appreciate it. I found an old magazine clipping that confirmed my grandfather, A.D. Brown, as being a namesake of the company. I had always heard there was a connection in the family with the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company. However, my father is also an A.D. Brown, making him the 2nd. Then I find on the internet yet another A.D. Brown, who founded the shoe company. Never heard of him. Undoubtedly, he is an uncle to my Grandfather. I need to find out the relationship, whatever it is.