Luther Brown was born in Concord, N. H., in 1802, and came to Le Roy in 1811, where he married Pamelia Lilly, of Pompey, N. Y., February 12, 1824. In 1835 he removed to Roanoke, and died August 17, 1876, aged 74 years. He was a millwright and built the grist-mill, now standing, and the Methodist Church. He had eight children, seven of whom are living. James E. Brown, born August 13, 1834, married Mary Foster, and their two children reside in St. Louis, Mo. He is a carpenter, is also highway commissioner, and has been a correspondent of the Le Roy Times since that paper was started.

FROM: Gazetteer and Biographical Record of Genesee County, New York, Edited by: F. W. Beers, J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890