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He was born on Sept. 10, 1891 in Banbridge, County Down, Ireland to John Scriven and Jane Medlicott Scriven. He attended Addiscombe Military College near London, England 1837-1839, preparing for service in [[India]]. For reasons of health, he withdrew and in 1842, he received a B.A. from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. It was here that he was introduced to the Brethren, of which his parents had been converted to earlier.
In 1845, his fiancee accidentally drowned the night before their wedding. Soon after, he joined PB friends in [[Woodstock Meeting Room, ON|Woodstock]], [[Ontario]] in [[Canada]], and taught there. The assembly there was active sided with the exclusives thru at least 1959Raven in 1889, and remained with what is now the active today as PBCCin two locations, under the leadership then of Raven & Taylor, Srwith a nearby school.
Scriven remained in Woodstock until ca. 1852 when he relocated to [[Brantford Meeting Room, ON|Brantford]]. The assembly in Brantford is known to have existed as early as 1851, presumably in the home of a schoolteacher named [[Edwin Wilcox Fear]] (1816-1895). While in Brantford for three years, Joseph conducted a private school, presumably alongside Br. Fear, and preached throughout the district. While staying with his friend James Sackville in 1855, he received news from Ireland of his mother being very ill, and he wrote a poem for her, "Pray Without Ceasing", and this is what was renamed later by Charles Crozat Converse as ''What A Friend We Have In Jesus''.
