Joseph William Lively [657]

  General Notes:

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg 162

Joseph William Lively for many years was one of West Virginia's able educators, and is still to a degree identified with educational affairs as West Virginia manager for the Virginia School Supply Company. In handling this business throughout the state his headquarters and home are at Charleston.

Mr. Lively was born in Lincoln County, West Virginia, in 1879, son of Mark and Sarah (Midkiff) Lively. The Livelys are a family of Scotch-Irish origin, with several generations of residence in old Virginia. His Paternal grandfather came from Virginia to Lincoln County, and still later moved to Ohio, but returned to Lincoln County and spent the rest of his life there. Mark Lively was a native of Lincoln County, where he and his wife still reside.

J. W. Lively attended the public schools of Lincoln County, and subsequently continued his education in Marshall College at Huntington and the West Virginia University at Morgantown. For eighteen years he was active in the profession of teaching, beginning in a country school on Lincoln County and ending his career as a school man as a superintendent of schools at South Charleston. He resigned this office in 1920, and in April of that year was appointed state manager for the Virginia School Supply Company of Richmond. He now has entire charge of the company's business in West Virginia.

The Virginia School Supply Company are manufacturers and wholesale distributors of school, opera and church furniture, including all school supplies and everything needed for the school room. Mr. Lively's talent for business, coupled with his many years experience in the school room, makes him exceptionally well qualified for a work in which he has brought distinctive success to his company. Mr. Lively married Miss Nora Hilbert of Lincoln County. His business offices are in the Odd Fellows Building at Capitol and State streets. He is a member of the order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, and a member of the Christian Church.

Joseph married Nora Hilbert [658] [MRIN: 304], daughter of Albert Simeon Hilbert [3904] and Lavila Amazon Watts [3905]. (Nora Hilbert [658] was born in 1885 in West Virginia.)