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On February, 1936, a Webster County, Iowa, road crew transported Dr. Gates Brown by means of toboggan so that he could make a rural house call following a blizzard that had closed many of Iowa's highways. For more information on the career of Gates Monroe Brown, the uncle of Farwell Tilden Brown, see "My-Uncle-the-Doctor," pp. 21-27 in "Ames in Word and Picture; Book Three: Tales from Two Old-Timers," by Kendrick W. Brown and Farwell T. Brown, 2003.