In the early days of mud roads and log cabins, the lawyers rode the circuit with the Judge on horseback from county to county, equipped with the old-fashioned leggings and saddle-bags, averaging about thirty miles a day. The party had their appointed stopping places, where they were expected, and, on their arrival, the chickens, dried apples, maple sugar, corn dodgers and old whisky suffered, while the best story-tellers regaled the company with their humor and anecdotes. With the organization of Madison County came also the attorneys—a necessary appendant to the administration of justice. Throughout the earlier period of the county's history the disciples of Blackstone and Kent do not seem to have looked upon London as a fruitful field for their profession, and for many years the county did not possess a single lawyer. From Chillicothe, Circleville, Columbus, Xenia, Urbana and Springfield came the first attorneys who figured before the courts of this county, and as some of them held the office of Prosecuting Attorney during those early days, it will be appropriate to give them a brief space in this chapter.