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Chapman (1880), Clay chapter and biographies; Howard (1907), Vol. I, Clay chapter (the school passage read in full)
The first school taught in Clay Township was on Section 23 — the future townsite — in John Eyler's house, by Charles Murray; the first school-house stood on Section 28 at Stover's, on the Edwardsburg road, Daniel A. Veasey probably its first teacher. By 1880 the township had six brick school buildings, under trustees Thomas Eaton and George Stover — Stover of Section 28, whose own biography in Chapman confirms him in the school-trustee office that year. That is the line at its reached depth: the district schools' individual names and sites after 1880 were not reached in any carrier opened — not in the county histories, the directories, or the library's material reachable here — and the want is registered (G-SC-5) with its first settler the 1875 atlas's Clay plate, whose schoolhouse symbols the plate image, not its machine text, can give up.