M. D. Bull, Clerk of the Board

On 16^th. day of May 1857, a special meeting of the School Inspectors of the Township of Dayton was held at the house of M. D. Bull for the purpose of forming a School districts. The area was divided up into District No.1 and District No.2. M. D. Bull was the Clerk of the Board and Jacob Barnhard and Silas L Crofoot were the School Inspectors.

The School Inspectors order that Sylvanus Reed notify the taxable inhabitants of School District No.1, that they would hold there first meeting on Saturday the 30^th. May at 6 o’clock P.M. at the house of M. D. Bull. And that Eliphalet Herrington notify the taxable inhabitants of School District No.2, that they would hold their first meeting at the house of Samuel Howe on Tuesday the 26^th. day of May at 1 o’clock P.M.

Some of the other early teachers of Dayton Township were Orrin Wiswell, Lydia Jane Upton, Eugenia Macomber, Maryanne Stanley, Louisa A Cummins, Alma Tibbitts, Jacob Barnhard, Elisabeth H Forbes, Sarah W Forbes, Wm. M. Brown, Almyra L Roger, M. W. Scott, A. E. Upton, Sarah Jane Carpenter, Harriet Maynard, Cab. Tibbitts, Mary Forbes, Eugenia Preston, Augusta Randolph, Helen A. "Stone" Barnes, Lida A. Cummingham, Romanda S. Carpenters, Daniel L. Barnes, David L. Hayes, Miss Mary Probaseo, Ann R. Teople, Lena Oles, Phebe Barnhard, Louisa Martin, Emily Nickerson, Ellen Armstrong, Simon P. Barnhard, Thadeus L. Waters, Mrs. Leavinia Warwic, Mary Ratchiffe, Harriet Smithers, John W. Randolph, Lyman Townsand and Mrs. Lizzie Fortune

On the 4^th. day of November 1859 at the School Inspectors meeting they form two more school district, District No.3 and District No.4. At that time Arura Dake and John Barnhard were on the board of the school inspectors. It was order that M. W. Scott notify the taxable inhabitants of School District No. 3 of their first meeting to be held on the 19^th. day of November 1859 at Caleb Wilcox’s place. It was order that Aaron Stone notify the taxable inhabitants of School District no.4, that their first meeting be held at the house of Thomas Mclains.

By 1860 the Board of School inspectors of Dayton Township were; Jacob Barnhard, John M Grovensteen and Melvin Scott. John Barnhard was the Township Clerk. By 1862 William A Hopkins had replaced John Grovensteen as school inspector. In 1863 the School Inspectors were M. W. Scott, A. J. Stone and Ebenezer Dobson. In 1864 J. H. Cogswell and Isaih. F. Fay were the School Inspectors.

On the 11^th. May 1866, at a special meeting of the School Inspectors of the Township of Dayton formed another school district called District No.5. They order Ira Knapp to notify the taxable inhabitant of said district the first meeting to be held at the house of Ira Knapp, on Tuesday the 22^nd of May 1866. Also on the 11^th. May at a special of the Board of School Inspectors of Dayton Township of Newaygo County and Greenwood Township of Oceana County. The new district was called District No.6. The Inspectors at that time were Eldridge Green, George W. Norton and Charles Potter from Greenwood Township and Isiah F. Fry and Ebenezer Dobson from Dayton Township. Notice of the information of the forgoing district and of the time and place of it’s first meeting was delivered to Joseph W. Sweet, a taxable inhabitant of said district. The first meeting to be held at the Champlin Store on the 31^st. May 1866.

On the 22^nd of May 1866, the School Inspectors voted to organized another school district to be known as School District No.7, and the first meeting to be held at the home of Joseph North and that John Mansfield was to notify the taxable inhabitant of said district of the meeting and place.

By the end of the year of 1866, there were seven schools in Dayton Township to teach the children of the many settlers who were coming into the area. As other schools were built in the area they begin to take on names instead of District Nos. Some of the names of the other schools in Dayton Township were: Dayton Center, Donahue, Doud, Lordon, Packer, Tyndall, Walker and Waters School