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Chapman (1880), pp. 677–678; Howard (1907) I, p. 288
The township's schooling begins in the townsite section. Both histories agree: "The first school ever taught in the township was on section 23, in Mr. Eyler's house. Charles Murray, a married man from 'Dutch Island,' in Harris township, was the first teacher" (Chapman). The first school-house was built on Section 28 — the place "now known as Stover's, on the Edwardsburg road" — and Daniel A. Veasey was probably its first teacher. By 1880 the township had "six excellent school buildings, all brick, with stone foundations," and nine months of school a year, a state of things Chapman credits to its school trustees, Thomas Eaton, trustee "for a number of years," and George Stover, "the present incumbent." The schools leg owns the township's school course from here; what belongs to this ground is the starting fact — the first teaching in Clay Township happened in a settler's house on the section Roseland now occupies, and the first purpose-built school stood two sections east, at Stover's.