Background
Lively, Charles Elson was born on September 29, 1890 in Marshall County, West Virginia, United States. Son of Milton Alexander and Susannah Jane (Riggs) Lively.
sociologist university professor
Lively, Charles Elson was born on September 29, 1890 in Marshall County, West Virginia, United States. Son of Milton Alexander and Susannah Jane (Riggs) Lively.
Student Peru Teachers College, Nebraska, 1910-1913, University of Montana, summer 1914. Bachelor of Arts, University of Nebraska, 1917, Master of Arts, 1918. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Minnesota, 1931.
Country school teacher, 1909-1910. Public school superintendent, Shickley, Nebraska, 1913, Grafton, 1914, Madison, 1918. Instructor in sociology University of Minnesota, 1919-1921, associate professor rural sociology, 1930-1931.
Assistant professor rural sociology Ohio State University, 1921-1930, associate professor, 1931-1936, professor, 1936-1938, on leave as research analyst Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Washington, 1934.
Professor rural sociology and department chairman U. Missouri 1938-1961, professor emeritus of rural sociology, 1961-1969, also executive director Institute for Research in Social Sciences 1951-1956. Visiting professor, researcher public health Southern Illinois University, 1962-1963.
State supervisor rural research, West.P.A., Ohio, 1935-1938, Missouri, 1938-1939. Collaborator United States Forest Service, 1939-1945.
Collaborator Farmers Home Administration and Bureau of Agricultural Economics, advisor to the United States Forest Service on problems of human relations, 1939-1945.
Visiting professor Garrett Biblical Institute, summer, 1956. Associate editor, Rural Sociology, 1937-1942. American delegate International Population Congress, Paris, France, 1937.
Member Executive Committee Missouri Association for Social Welfare, 1939, regional chairman, 1945, member health committee, 1948-1949.
Technical adviser Missouri State Nurses Association, 1947-1948. Member Government"s Committee on Aging.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (secretary advisory council on human relations 1939-1945), American Sociological Society (Executive Committee 1943-1946). Member Rural Sociological Society of America (vice president 1940.
Married Ethel Dell Johnston, September 21, 1918.