Lincoln County, West Virginia    Biography of Joseph William LIVELY 

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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 man-
ager 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 (Midkill) 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 Mar-
shall College at Huntington and the West Virginia Uni-
versity at Morgantown. For eighteen years he was active
in the profession of teaching, beginning in a country
school in Lincoln County and ending his career as a school
man as 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 fur-
niture, 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 orders of Odd
Fellows and Knights of Pythias, and a member of the
Christian Church.