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| Name | Narrative | Branch and Rank | Unit and Specialty | Conflict/Arena | Born/Died |
| Cooper Woodington | Cooper Woodington was born in January 1839, the son of Alexander Woodington and Sarah Anne Cooper, and was raised in Bridgeboro. For several months in 1861 – 1862, Cooper lived at the Delaranco Hotel with the civilian crew of Brutus de Villeroi’s salvage submarine, Alligator. Alexander Rhodes recruited him to the position of hardhat diver, and he remained with the project with the prototype, then the military version of the submarine. He sailed with the Alligator to City Point Virginia. He was eventually discharged in Washington DC. See Alice’s crew biographies. Cooper and Mary Elizabeth Dewson married on March 15, 1862 in Burlington, New Jersey. They had 9 children: Franklin, Mary Elizabeth, Alexander, William Washington, Samuel, Henry Harry, Norman C., Aubrey Devere, and Elizabeth Woodington. Cooper died Feb 14, 1924 at age 84 and is buried in Monument Cemetery in Beverly. Some of his descendants still live in the Delanco area. | Union Navy, Rank? | Alligator crew | Civil War | 1840 – 1924 |
Updated October 30, 2023