School District No. 3 of Franklin County, Missouri, was located in Township No. 41, Range 3 West. On April 15, 1882, the directors of the school district met and organized by electing David McMiller as president of the board and Silas A. Shults as clerk. Shults held the position until July 25, 1889, when Thomas Yeates was elected. Yeates served until Charles F. Schmidt was elected on July 5, 1890. Silas A. Shults (1840-1912) entered most of the information in the record book. He was a farmer in Boone, Franklin County, Missouri, who married Elizabeth J. Springston (1843-1875). The couple had four sons of school age during Shults’s tenure as district clerk. Shults lost both his first and second wife, Sedonia Jane Blankenship (1856-1884), while serving as clerk. In 1885, he married his third wife, Laurinda Ellen Vaughn (1856-1943), and had four more children.