Who Was This Man? (1)

[Towntalk]

Because Jay flatly refuses to provide us with the answer, we may never know.

[sfc_oliver]

It is most certainly John Lansing Jr... But I can't find a direct connection to Youngstown......

[iwasthere]

i bet jay will go to his grave with the answer, tt.

[Towntalk]

I suspect that Jay wanted to know who chose the name because he didn't know and hoped that someone would know.

[Towntalk]

Boycott all Jay's posts till he gives us the answer.

[iwasthere]

kennyjoe the mayor would lose patience with jay by flapping his hands and arms up and down while screaming at jay to give him the answer or shut up while the seven council bobbleheads nod in agreement.

[Towntalk]

   STILL NO ANSWER 

[Towntalk]

The answer please!

[kenneyjoe330]

COME ON --- COME ON Jay    Give the answer ALREADY    Boy you think we were dealing with Congress here already - or at least the mayor 

[Towntalk]

Answer please?

[Towntalk]

Isaac Powers who purchased 600 acres of land on behalf of his father Abram Powers.

[jay]

That's how Lansingville got its name.  Someone named this section of the south side of Youngstown for a man who never lived there.

So who was the person who picked the name Lansingville?

[Towntalk]

What was his connection to Youngstown. The man was in New York, and disappeared  on the evening of December 12, 1829.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lansing,_Jr.

[kenneyjoe330]

OK OK OK for real now it is none other than - drum roll please - ta dum - John Lansing    Secretary to General Skyler during the Revolutionary War !  And what did I win    I hope it is a free bowl of Haluski from the Carpatho - Rusyn Kitchen at the up comming Simply Slavic fest - They do make THE BEST  "HALUSKI:" 

[kenneyjoe330]

The guy that Campbell is named after = augh Mr. Campbell ?