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basic influence causing the state of Virginia to become solidly Democratic. He was a member of the board of aldermen, represent- ing Madison ward for many vears and has always been actue m state, county and city politics.

Mr. IJelvin is a mt'ml)cr of the Richmond Blue Lodge, No. lo. Tree and Accepted Masons ; Lafayette Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Richmond Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar. He is a thirty-second de- gree Scottish Rite Mason of Dalcho Con- sistory, No. I, Richmond; founded Acca Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in 1886, and was its first grand potentate ; also an honorary life member of the Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine ; past exalted ruler and past district deputy grand exalted ruler of Richmond Lodge, No. 45.

Preston Belvin is president of the Vir- ginia State Automobile Association and vice-president of the American Automobile Association. He is a member of both the Country Club and the Hermitage Club ; of the Chamber of Commerce, of the Rotary Club, of the Business Men's Club, of the Richmond Advertiser's Club, and in fact many other similar organizations, and has a general interest from a public-spirited stand- point with the growth and development of Richmond and the state of Virginia. He is well known over the country as a solid man and one to be counted upon, a Good Roads man. He is at the head of the Good Roads Club here, and is the Virginia direc- tor of the Quebec and Miami Highway, run- ning from Quebec to Miami, Florida, two thousand five hundred miles in extent, but recently completed and the longest in the world. Mr. Belvin is a director and stock- holder in many important enterprises here. Politically, he has always been known as a staunch Democrat, and religiously a liberal supporter of the First Baptist Church.

On December 5, 1875, in the city of Rich- mond, Mr. Belvin married Eliza Richard Glazebrook, a native of Richmond, whose parents, Richard and Mary Eliza (Flope) Glazebrook, are both deceased. Richard Glazebrook was born in Hanover county, Virginia, and served all through the late war in the Confederate army. For many years he was one of the best known whole- sale grocerymen of the state, and the firm of Glazebrook & Thomas, wholesale gro- cers, was a leading concern of its kind in

Richmond. Mary Eliza (Hope J Glazebrook was a native of Louisa county. Mr. Belvin has three children, all married, and with interesting families of their own. The first child, Margaret May, is now the wife of Charles Kruse, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The second child, John Allan, devotes his time to his father's business, and is the gen- eral sales manager thereof ; married Lucile Dederick, of Jonesboro, Tennessee, a daugh- ter of Captain Dederick, and granddaughter of Judge IX^derick. who was president of the supreme court of apj^eals of Tennessee for sixteen years. Lucile is the great-grand- daughter of (jovernor Shelby, of Kentuck}' ; they have two children, girls : Virginia and Marjorie. Preston Jr., the third child, is also associated with his father in the capac- ity of superintendent ; he married Theressa wainman, who was born in Asheville, North Carolina, a daughter of Captain Charles \\"ainman, of the King's Body Guard, Royal Huzzars. England. Her mother was Doro- thy Leslie (Halwaine) Wainman, also born in England, and her father. Baron Balwaine, is now living in Scotland at a very advanced age ; Preston Jr. has two children, Dorothy Hilda and Preston Belvin (HI). Both sides of the Belvin family are entitled to member- ship in the Colonial Dames and Daughters of the Revolution. Mr. Belvin's wife and his daughter, Margaret ^lay, are meml^ers of both these organizations.

Stuart N. Michaux, M. D. Embracing the profession to which his honored father has devoted his life. Dr. Stuart N. Alichaux has since May, 1904, been a practicing phy- sician in the city of Richmond, Virginia, a lecturer and professor of gynecology at the Medical College of Virginia. He is a son of Dr. Jacob M. Michaux, and a grandson of William Walthall Michaux, the latter a planter and plantation owner prior to the war, in Powhatan county, Virginia. He died in 1 88 1, aged about seventy years. His wife, Virginia (Bernard) Michaux, survived him until 1904, dying at the a^ge of eighty- six years.

Dr. Jacob M. Michaux was born in Beau- mont, Powhatan county, Virginia, and for five years was a leading physician of Pow- hatan county. He then located in Richmond, Virginia, where he continued the practice of his profession. He married Willie Henry Johnson, born in 1861.