Talk:Worthington, Ohio

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Apparently, there was a "Scioto Company" formed in France in the late 1700's whose sole purpose, apparently, was to defraud investors who ended up founding Marietta, Ohio despite their losses. The company James Kilbourne formed was also named the "Scioto Company", and had nothing to do with the earlier French scam. So anyway, a disambiguation page will be needed before I can link to "Scioto Company" in Wikipedia. I'll have to figure out how to do this...
 * If there are only two options, you don't need a separate disambiguation page. Just have a statement at the top of both pages referring to the other (e.g. This page is about the French company. For the American company, see Scioto Company (United States). or something like that). Though the question then becomes, which company should use the page title Scioto Company and which page should use the page title with a parenthetical (such as Scioto Company (United States). The answer depends on which is more well known and/or which has the most relevant Wikipedia pages pointing to it (see the pages at Special:Whatlinkshere/Scioto Company for the answer to the latter). HollyAm 03:36, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Geography
Can someone fact-check the following: "Except for a small border with Perry Township (Brookside Estates) on the west, Worthington is completely surrounded by Columbus." I thought that Worthington bordered directly with Delaware county in the areas around WKHS and Smoky Row Road.

Worthington borders Riverlea and Linworth, neither of which are part of the City of Columbus. However, this does not preclude being surrounded by Columbus, they may all be surrounded together...


 * Up by WKHS and Smoky Row, while it is a Worthington Schools area, it is in Columbus and not Worthington. Zybthranger (talk) 21:10, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Dr. Jonas Stanbery, Scioto Company
I changed the name Dr. John Stanbery to Dr. Jonas Stanbery in the history section. There was only one Stanbery involved in the Scioto Company (the company which was instrumental to the founding of Worthington), and that was Jonas Stanbery. Jonas Stanbery was a New York City doctor who invested in the Scioto Company. He was the son of Recompense Stanbery of Scotch Plains, New Jersey, who was an officer in the Revolutionary War. Jonas had two wives and at least 13 children, none of whom was named John. By Frances Winans he had Elias, Catherine, Job, Jonas Jr., Frances and the Hon. William Stanbery. By Ann Lucy McCready Seamans he had Ann Lucy, the Honorable Henry Stanbery (U.S. Atty. Gen. under Johnson), Edward Stanbery MD, Augustus, Charles Sr., George and Howard. The Worthington Historical Society has a list of the 38 original members of the Scioto Company.

The Scioto Company (Organized 1802 in CT)
I really feel that the Scioto Company (the reputable one) should have its own page. Why is the Scioto Company that was instrumental in Ohio's history relegated to being basically a footnote on a page about some scam artists in France? The other Scioto Company was really a French Company named La Compagnie du Scioto. It had one American representative, and I think the American name was the Scioto Land Company, not The Scioto Company.

The (reputable) Scioto Company was formed in Connecticut in 1802 for the purpose of purchasing land in the Northwest Territory. I found a book under Google Books called Federal Land Series: A Calendar of Archival Materials on the Land Patents, Vol 1 1788-1810 by Clifford Neal Smith. I added up all of the acreages on the land patents for Jonas Stanbery alone, and they totaled about 120,000 acres. BUT, this book is a preview book, so not all of the pages are shown. I did an estimate for the missing pages, based on typical acreages in the patent number ranges in which they fell, and came up with at least another 10,000 acres, or about 130,000 acres for patents on which Jonas's name appears. However, the Scioto Company had 38 members. I haven't done the same for the other 38 members, but if Jonas was representative, we could be talking about 5 million acres of land patents in the Northwest Territory.

Thus, I honestly believe that the Scioto Company founded 1802 in Connecticut is more deserving of being the main link for Scioto Company under Wikipedia. The other company---which was not truly an American company, but a French one founded in 1787, and whose name was really the Scioto Land Company (if you want to get technical, which we should under Wikipedia)---should really be the footnote. Does anyone else agree?

Mrs rockefeller (talk) 17:38, 2 December 2015 (UTC)