A. D. Vanhorn
The first lawyer to locate in London was A. D. Vanhorn, a native of Vermont who came to Columbus, and in 1819 settled in this town. He made his home at the hotel of Phillip Lewis, and is said to have been a fine-looking man, and a lawyer of considerable ability. We find his name on record as Prosecuting Attorney, in 1820, and we learn that he died shortly afterward. It is said that he lett a wife and family in the East, as he often spoke of his children. He was somewhat dissipated, and this perhaps was the cause of his leaving his Eastern home, to die far away from wife and family.
From History of Madison County - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]