The following was copied from the Pueblo Chieftain, Pueblo, Colorado, Thursday, May 5, 1955, Page 13, Columns 1-2:
Former Teacher Operates Business From ‘Doghouse’
Editor’s Note - This is one of a series of personality sketches designed to recognize Southern Coloradoans who have done outstanding work for the betterment of their community, region and state. Readers are invited to submit their nominations, along with the reasons they feel make their candidate an outstanding Southern Colorado personality.
CHERAW (C-SJ) - Ernest Shively, whose varied career includes a background as a minister, teacher, athletic coach and investment salesman, operates from “The Doghouse”.He has given this title to the small house which he uses as an office as Arkansas Valley zone manager for Investors Diversified Services, Inc.With a bit of ingenuity, Shively has established an intercommunication system in his office. It allows him to hear the telephone in his home nearby, calls from his family, or other messages. Shively came to Colorado in 1940 and has resided in the Arkansas Valley since. Prior to that he was pastor of a Wichita, Kan. Church of the Brethren for three years.He received a bachelor of arts degree from Manchester, Ind. College, a BD degree from Bethany Biblical College, and did residence work for his master’s degree at the University of Chicago.Shively served three years as pastor of the Church of the Brethren at Rocky Ford, then moved to Manzanola where he taught one year at the high school. The following year he taught and coached at Boone.He came to Cheraw to teach in 1945 and remained five years. His debate teams made an outstanding showing in appearances in a number of Colorado cities.He was appointed to his present post in June, 1950, and each year since has qualified for the company’s highest sales and service award for zone managers.Shively married Miss Martha Judy at her home in West Virginia in 1934. The couple has two daughters and a son, and reside on a farm three miles east of here.He has been active in community affairs, as well as Colorado Arkansas Valley Inc.
Extracted from the Pueblo Chieftain, Pueblo, Colorado, Sunday, October 19, 1958, Page 23, Columns 2-7:
Writing Revealing, Shively Says
CHERAW (C-SJ) - How do you cross your T’s?
Ernest Shively of Cheraw says the more-or-less horizontal line on the top of the 20th letter of the alphabet can reveal some interesting things about you. In face, some persons have told him that the analysis of their characters according to their handwriting was “so accurate it was almost embarrassing”.
Shively, secretary of the Colorado Grapho-Analysis Society, can speak with authority. He has been studying handwriting since its analysis was demonstrated by a friend, Sidney Montague, a Canadian Northwest Mountie. Last year Shively gave almost 100 talks on handwriting, conducted evening classes at Otero Junior College, and held four teacher’s workshops.
He received his training in grapho-analysis from the International Grapho-Analysis Society. All of the training in the one-year course is by mail. The course is released to a student only after the applicant has passed a type of entrance examination in longhand.
Professionals grading the preliminary test can screen potential forgers or other persons wishing to make illegal use of the course. As a precaution, Shively’s classes use only eight traits of writing. There is no possibility of a forger getting enough information from the short course of two three-hour sessions to help his business.
The International Society offers a post graduate or second year course dealing with special career problems and counseling. Shively hopes to use this counseling aid in what is called, “Ernest Shively Services”. However, he believes grapho-analysis ought to go beyond mere analysis of character - he believes it ought to include philosophy as well.
Shively is a former minister for the Church of the Brethren, taught high school for six years, and nows is a salesman for an investment syndicate. Because these phrases of his life made him realize the potential strength of grapho-analysis, he hopes to write a course on what he calls, “graph-dynamics” combining handwriting analysis, philosophy and salesmanship.
School, religion and home life create certain molds for characters, Shively points out. The person who resents any of these molds may feel so guilty that he fears an analysis of his handwriting may reveal his true traits, according to Shively.
“Traits are not good or bad in themselves. The way they are used determines whether they are good or bad,” Shively says. “If a person would learn his true traits, recognize them as his drives and learn to like himself better because he understands himself, eh would be happier, “the analysts from Cheraw says. Happier life is a part of the philosophy he hopes to incorporate in his article.
Handwriting changes with mood, occupation and growth, just as a person changes, Shively says. However, the basic part of the handwriting remains the same. For a true analysis of handwriting Shively advises three or four pages of long-hand written at three different times.
Among the Shively services are self-development projects such as home study of languages, graph-analysis, Montague executive tapes, and the newest addition - the Chamberlain Memorial Library. This is a lending library that developed after the deaths of Judge and Mrs. H. S. Chamberlain of Rocky Ford who willed Shively their library for a borrow-a-book-a-month club.
Shively offers program services on handwriting, a lecture featuring the Chamberlain library and other programs. He has counseling and resident classes in graph-analysis and grapho-dynamics.
Ernest Albert Shively was born on 16-Mar-1912 in Denver, Miami County, IN and died on 3-May-1969 in La Junta, Otero County, Colorado. He was married on 3-Mar-1934 in Peru, Miami County, IN to Martha A. Judy. Martha was born on 20-Aug-1909 in Eglon, Preston County, WV and died on 20-Oct-1996 in La Junta, Otero County, CO. Ernest and Martha are buried in the Fairview Cemetery, Otero County, CO. Martha was the daughter of Daniel Grant Judy (1866-1953) and Rachel W. Weimer (1867-1947).
Ernest Albert Shively was the son of Thomas Albert Shively (born 22-Nov-1883 in Peru, Miami County, IN died 30-Jun-1953 in Miami County, IN) and Myrtle Arable Fisher (born 18-Aug-1883 in Miami County, IN died 16-Nov-1963 in Miami County, IN). Thomas Shively was the son of Daniel Peter Shively (born 24-Nov-1841 in Montgomery County, OH died 22-Jul-1900 in Pipe Creek Township, Miami County, IN) and Harriet Little (born 14-May-1847 in IN died 10-Jan-1923 in Pipe Creek, IN). Daniel Shively was the son of Daniel L. Shively, Jr. (born 12-Sep-1801 in Huntingdon County, PA died 21-Apr-1863 in Miami County, IN) and Catherine Bowman (born 1801 in OH died 16-Oct-1885 in Miami County, IN). Daniel L. Shively, Jr. was the son of Daniel L. Shively, Sr. (born 1773 in Frederick County, MD died 22-Mar-1818 in Montgomery County, OH) and Susannah Ulrich (born 5-Feb-1770 in PA died 21-Aug-1861 in Clinton County, IN). Daniel Shively, Sr. was the son of Christian Shively, Sr. (1745-1834) and Susannah Cripe (1747-1818).
Located on the 1920 Pipe Creek Township, Miami County, IN census is the family of Thos A. Shiveley age 36, wife Myrtle age 36, son Ernest age 7, son Roger age 5 and son Herbert age 1. On the 1930 Pipe Creek Township, Miami County, IN census is Thomas A. Shively age 46, wife Myrtle A. age 46, son Ernest A. age 18, son R oger F. age 15, son Herbert T. age 11. On the 1940 Wichita, Sedwick County, KS census are Ernest Shively age 28, wife Martha age 30, daughter Doris Jean age 5 and daughter Harriet Joan age 2. Listed on the 1950 Otero County, CO census is the family of Ernest A. Shively age 38, wife Martha A. age 40, daughter Jeane J. age 15, daughter Harriet J. age 12 and son David L.
The following newspaper article was found in The Kokomo Tribune, Kokomo, Indiana, Wednesday, March 14, 1934, page 3, Column 3:
Shively-Judy Wedding
Bunker Hill, Ind., March 13 — Announcement is made of the marriage of the Rev. Ernest Shively, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Shively of Pipe Creek township, and Martha Judy, formerly residing west of Ekin. The wedding was solemnized March 3 at the home of the bridegroom’s parents, his father performing the ceremony. The couple are students of Bethany Biblical Seminary in Chicago.
The following newspaper obituary for Martha A. Judy Shively was copied from Find-A-Grave:
Martha A. Shively, 87, of Cheraw, CO, died October 20, 1996 at the Arkansas Valley Medical Center in La Junta, CO.
Mrs. Shively was born at Eglon (WV) on August 20, 1909 and was a daughter of the late Daniel Grant and Rachel (Weimer) Judy.
On March 3, 1934, she married Ernest Shively in Peru, IN and he preceded her in death in 1967. She was a 1934 graduate of Bethany Biblical Seminary. In 1972 she received a community service award from the Cheraw Lions Club.
For 19 years she worked as a clerk at the Cheraw Post Office. She was a pastor’s wife in Naperville, IL, Wichita, KS and Rocky Ford, CO, Churches of the Brethren. Mrs. Shively was active in the Cheraw Woman’s Club and Missionary Club. She volunteered her time at the Ft. Lon VA Medical Center and was a member of the Cheraw Methodist Church.
A son, David, preceded her in death in 1989 and three sisters, Florence Harsh, Goldie Moon and Mary Hamstead, as well as one brother, Samuel Judy, also preceded her in death.
Survivors include two daughters, Jeanne (Mrs. Marlin) Sitter, Bushton, KS and Harriet (Mrs. Fletcher) Sutton of Colorado Springs, CO; a twin brother, John Judy of Horse Shoe Run (WV), a sister, Maude Judy of Oakland (MD), five grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
The following was copied from the Pueblo Chieftain, Pueblo, Colorado, Tuesday, May 6, 1969, Page 2, Column 4:
Ernest A. Shively
CHERAW, (C-SJ) — Funeral services for Ernest A. Shively, 57, minister and Cheyenne Wells teacher, will be held at 3 p.m. today at Cheraw United Methodist Church.
Shively died unexpectedly at his home in Cheraw May 3, 1969. He was born in Peru, Ind., March 16.
Shively served as Church of the Brethren minister for congregations in Rocky Ford; Wichita, Kan., and Burnettsville, Ind. He also was a minister for Methodist churches in Olney Springs and Haswell. He had been mathematics instructor at Cheyenne Wells High School of the past two years. Prior to that he taught in Boone, Manzola, Cheraw, Holly and Sugar City High Schools.
He was a member of Cheraw United Methodist Church and an active member of International Graphoanalyst Society.
Surviving are his widow, Martha; one son, David, of the home; two daughters, including Mrs. Fletcher Sutton, Pueblo, and two brothers. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, La Junta.
