R.N. Howard, M.D. came to Carrington from Tower City, North Dakota late in 1898. His first office was on the second floor of the Buchanan store. In the late fall of 1900 he had fitted up a new office in the Grand Hotel when, just returning from an out‑of-town trip, he dropped dead in the Eisenhuth Drug Store. The burial took place at Tower City.

Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 221