When Floyd Benjamin Utter was born on 10 December 1880, in Newton, Sussex, New Jersey, United States, his father, Carlos Allen Utter, was 32 and his mother, Jane Rutan, was 32. He married Florence Irene Shupp on 8 April 1905, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 30 years. He registered for military service in 1901. He died on 7 January 1963, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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John Philip Holland was an inventor famous for designing the world's first submarines. After previous designs were rejected, Holland eventually received funding from the Fenians for a short time. In 1881, the Fenian Ram was launched into the Passaic River in northern New Jersey, marking the first successful submarine launch in the world.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Swedish: soldier's name from utter ‘otter’.
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Floyd Benjamin Utter - Spanish American War Veteran
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