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Sylvester Hiram Utter was born on 14 December 1858 in Vernon, Sussex, New Jersey. He was married in 1878.¹ He and Elizabeth Clark were married on 22 January 1889 in Hardyston, Sussex, New Jersey. He died on 1 March 1922, at age 63, in Hawthorne, Passaic, New Jersey. He was buried in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa, Passaic, New Jersey.²

Sylvester Hiram Utter was a Doctor (Dermatalogy.)¹ Mar 1922:
VERNON VAGERIES
-- Dr. Sylvester Utter, borough commissioner of finance of Hawthorne, N.J., and father of the late Mrs. Edward Bennett, of New Milford, died at his home on Goffle Hill Road, Hawthorne, last Wednesday. Dr. Utter was one of Hawthorne's most prominent citizens for many years Mayor of the borough, for several terms as health officer. He born in Vernon township, and began the practice of his profession in Stockholm.

From Paterson and its Environs pg 362:
SYLVESTER UTTER, M. D. -- Among Paterson's most representative men of medicine is Dr. Sylvester Utter, who has by reason of his extensive study under the masters of dermatalogy throughout Europe, become foremost in this particular line.
Dr. Utter was born in Vernon township, Sussex county, N. J., Dec. 14, 1859, the son of Henry S. and Julia (Card) Utter, both of several generations in New Jersey. Upon completing his prescribed studies in the local schools, he taught at Upper Haledom for three years. At the age of twenty-two years he entered New York University from which he recieved his medical degree in 1885. He served his internship under Professor Whitehouse at Cornell University, and has been associated with him ever since as dermatologist. For the past twenty-five years Dr. Utter has been dermatologist at St. Joseph's Hospital, and since its founding, of Barnert Hospital, serving with untiring effort. He is a member of Passaic County, State and American Medical societies, and ex-member of of the New Jersey State Legislature and present commissioner of finance of the borough of Hawthorne.
Dr. Utter married (first) 1878, Marie E. Banta. She died in 1888. They had one child, Anna, now Mrs. Edward Bennett, of Warwick, N. Y. Dr. Utter married (second) Elizabeth Clark, daughter of J. W. and Johanne (Miller) Clark, of Paterson, becoming by this union the father of the following children: Elizabeth and Jessie.

Elizabeth Utter was born on 31 May 1891 in New Jersey.¹ She died on 23 February 1982, at age 90, in Salisbury, Wicomico, Maryland.¹ She was buried in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa, Passaic, New Jersey.¹

Jessie Utter was born on 23 June 1894 in Hawthorne, Passaic, New Jersey.¹ She and Seaman Hartman Gray were married in March 1921 in New Jersey.² She died on 8 October 1986, at age 92, in Wayne, Passaic, New Jersey.¹ She was buried in Laurel Grove Memorial Park (Section 4), Totowa, Passaic, New Jersey.¹

John Moore was born on 3 August 1887 in New Jersey.¹ He died on 29 November 1971, at age 84, in Maryland.¹ He was buried in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa, Passaic, New Jersey.¹

Moore--John, passed away on Nov. 29, 1971, of Salisbury, Maryland and formerly of Hawthorne, beloved husband of Elizabeth Utter, Father of John R., of Morristown, N.J., Mrs. Bette Gavin Staples, Baltimore. Graveside services Thursday at 1 p.m. in the Laurel Grove Cemetery, Rev. Paul E. Splecker.

Elizabeth (Bette) Anne Moore was born on 5 April 1925 in Hawthorne, Passaic, New Jersey. She and William Wesley Gavin, Jr., were married about 1949 in Maryland. She died on 15 November 1992, at age 67, in Salisbury, Wicomico, Maryland.

Bette Gavin Staples, 67 of here, died Sunday, Nov. 15, 1992, at Peninsula Medical Center in Salisbury of cancer.

Born in Hawthorn, N.J., she was a daughter of the late John and Elizabeth Utter Moore of Salisbury.

She is survived bt her husband, George M. Staples III; two sons, William Wesley Gavin III of Essex, Md., and John Clark
Gavin of Los Angeles; two daughters, Elizabeth Gaven MacFarlane of Salisbury and Victoria Staples Fitzpatrick of Monkton, Md.; five grandchildren; and one brother, John Moore of Northbrook, Ill.

A memorial service was held at Holloway Funeral Home in Salisbury Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1992.

Contributions may be made in memory of the deceased to the American Cancer Society, c/o Louise B. Smith, Route 8, Box 124, Crestwood Circle, Salisbury, Md. 21801.

William Wesley Gavin, Jr., was born about 1922 in Salisbury, Wicomico, Maryland. He and Elizabeth (Bette) Anne Moore were married about 1949 in Maryland. He died on 4 December 1959 in New York.

William Wesley Gavin, Jr., was educated Riverside Military Institute/ Massachusetts Institude of Technology. He was awarded an Aeronautical Engineering. US Air Force-WWII. William Wesley Gavin, Jr., 38, of Taney Avenue, design engineer at the Wayne Pump Company here died yesterday in Peninsula General Hospital. He had been a patient a week but he had been ill for some time.

A native of Salisbury, he was the son of Mrs. Nellie S. Gavin and the late William W. Gavin, Sr., and husband of Mrs. Elizabeth Moore Gavin. He was a graduate of Wicomico High School, Riverside Military Academy, and was an alumnus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., where he received his degree in aeronautical engineering.

During World War II he was a lieutenant in the Air Force and served three and a half years as a pilot and engineer.

He was appointed to the Stste Aviation Commision in 1948. He was a member of Asbury Methodist Church and Green Hill Yacht and Country Club.

Besides his mother and wife, he leaves three children, Elizabeth Carroll, 2, Wliiam Wesley Gavin III, 8, and John Clark, 4.

Funeral services were scheduled today at 2 p.m. in Asbury Methodist Church.

The family suggests that a tribute donations may be sent to the Wicomico County Cancer Society.

William Wesley Gavin, III, was born on 12 April 1951 in Salisbury, Wicomico, Maryland.¹ He died on 27 December 1996, at age 45, in Glynn, Georgia.¹

George McClellan Staples was born on 16 April 1897 in Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa. He died on 21 June 1971, at age 74, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky.