Can't horizontally scroll in Ionic 1.3.0 iOS App - ios

My Cordova/Ionic (v1.3.0) App consists primarily of a JQuery App that builds the HTML for complex forms. The same JQuery App is used to build the complex forms for the web browser with only a few places where it inserts mobile-specific code.
I am now trying to have a horizontally scrolling table section within the vertically scrolling form (the form itself doesn't scroll horizontally, just the table section). The section horizontal scrolling works in Safari/Chrome/Firefox on the computer, in Safari on iOS, and in the Android version of our Cordova/Ionic app but it doesn't horizontally scroll in the iOS app.
I tried various fixes based on these SO questions and documentation (q1,q2,q3,q4) where I changed it from a <div/> to <ion-content/> and added the overflow-scroll="true" direction="xy" delegate-handle="tableGroup" properties and called $ionicScrollDelegate.$getByHandle('tableGroup').resize() after the JQuery app loaded but nothing worked. I also tried using TinyScrollbar based on this question but that wasn't loading right. So I've tried going many directions but haven't gotten anywhere. Any suggestions?

I actually figured this out on my own. I put a couple variations of a simple scrolling elements in containers on the Ionic page and <ion-scroll/> worked. Then I tried putting it in the JQuery app with a delegate handle sectionScroll and called $ionicScrollDelegate.$getByHandle('sectionScroll').resize(); after the JQuery app loaded but got a console warning saying that it couldn't find anything named sectionScroll and that I should put it in a $timeout(). I tried that but it still didn't work. Then I realized that since <ion-scroll/> is an angular directive that is created as part of a long template string inserted into the Ionic app using JQuery, it needed to be compiled by Angular to be recognized as below:
let toCompile = angular.element('#formContent');
let linkFn = $compile(toCompile);
linkFn($scope);
$ionicScrollDelegate.$getByHandle('sectionScroll').resize();

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