In a message dated 7/21/2009 6:03:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  Richard A Brown (crankycuss1@optonline.net) writes:
I am following the ancestry of the paternal side of the Brown family.
Great-great-grandfather: 
Milton Brown (born 1874, died before 1954, married to Laura Lindley, known homes: Harford NY and Lisle NY).
Great-great-great-grandfather:
Irving S. Brown (no dates, same geographic area, married to Maria Williamson)