However, this story is mostly a legend based in some truth. The two brothers who were said to have founded the village were likely Abraham Salle and Dr. Archibald Logwood Wooldridge (often called A. S. and A. L. Wooldridge). They, along with their two sisters, Jane Elam and Charlotte Wooldridge, incorporated a mining company called the Midlothian Coal Mining Company in 1835. This company's lands consisted of most of the present-day land south of Midlothian Turnpike in the village of Midlothian and is thought to have given its name to the village. The name of the coal company came from the Midlothian tract of land that was one of the two tracts that made up the company's original land holdings of 404 1/2 acres. The name of the tract came from a house ( demolished in the 1900s in a fire department exercise) that was located on the tract that was also named Midlothian and was owned by the Wooldridge family. The first Wooldridge in America and the one who had assembled most of the Midlothian area lands, John Wooldridge (great-grandfather of the two brothers), came in the late 17th century from England. However, his ancestors in England had connections with the region of Midlothian in Scotland and it is from here that the name is originally derived.