The Tyrone Township school board records for Sept. 2^nd, 1872 give some interesting insight into life in a very western frontier in the America of that time. The normal procedural conventions for the meeting were in place, but when it came to reporting the school expenses I was puzzled until I realised they were dealing with pounds & shillings! John T. Tuxbury was elected as moderator and Nathaniel Westcott was elected "to get the money belonging to said District coming from District No. 6 of Casnovia." This was the formal realization by the school board that their geographical student draw area had grown to include the booming town of Casnovia which straddled the Muskegon and Kent county boundary lines.

This also was the meeting which had a committee for the purpose of getting another school site and building adjacent to the present school house to report back on Sept. 18^th; M.L. Sqier, Will Twiss, and F.A Bail were selected.

The new school director in 1872 for Tyrone Township District No. 1, J.M. Armstrong, recorded the school census according to family groups, not alphabetically by last name. This style makes searching the list very difficult. The spelling of names is also different; with some first and last names, and may make following you family group interesting.

This was the first year the White family, my own family, is listed as going to school in Western Michigan. I know they moved to the Casnovia, Muskegon County area in 1871 from Grand Rapids.The first names of the White family children are also misspelled, but I got an insight into the pronounciation of their names with Mr. Armstrong’s more phonetic spelling and for that I value recording what is listed in the journal.