From History of Madison County, W. H. Beers & Co, Chicago, 1883
Among the early teachers was one Phelps, who figured here quite prominently prior to 1820. Somewhat later. Dr. McCloud was a teacher at Amity. But as the subject and character of the primitive schools and schoolhouses have been fully treated upon in the general history of the county, and as the description of them there is equally a description of their character here, we will not repeat the matter in the history of Canaan Township. This township is now divided into seven school districts with as many good schoolhouses The present Board of Education are: Subdistrict No. 1. C. M. Butt; No. 2. Lemuel Marshall; No. 3. M. Worthington, President; No. 4, John S.Wilson; No. 5. A. J. Greenbaum; No. 6, J. F. Kilbury; No. 7. Daniel Anderson, with G. E. Spring, Clerk.
Last enumeration: Subdistrict No. 1., males, 2S; females, 30; total. 58. No. 2., males, 11 : females, 6; total 17. No. 3, males, 23; females, 21; total, 44. No. 4, males, 20; females, 28; total, 48; No. 5, males, 9, females, 10; total, 19. No. 6, males, 9; females, 11; total, 20. No. 7, males, 21; females, 20; total, 41. Total males, 121; females, 126; total, 247. Total receipts: Balance on hand September 1, 1881, $3,303.10; State tax, $333.; irreducible school funds, $21.88; township tax for school and schoolhouse purposes, $1,682.06; total, $5,340.04. Expenditures: Amount paid teachers, $1,908.90; interest and contingent funds, $1,050.01. Total, $2,958.91. Total value of school property, $8,000.