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Chicago. Illinois, and was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine from that institution in 1906. In May, 1906, he located in Richmond, where he has been in practice ever since, most successfully. He is a mem- ber oi the Richmond Homceopathic Medical Society, and member and president of the Southern Homoeopathic Medical Society. He is eminent in his profession, one of the leaders in the school of practice he has adopted as his own. His fraternities are the Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Mu and Phi Alpha Gamma. In political faith he is a Demo- crat, and in religious belief a Presbyterian. Dr. Lorraine married, November 8, 1906, Grace, daughter of II. S. Wunder. Child, Grace, born in Richmond, September 16, 1908.

Richard Blackburn Tucker. The name Tucker has been l)orne l)y so many emi- nent X'irginians in every generation since the early settlement of the family that to enumerate them and their deeds of great- ness in church and state would reciuire volumes. Richard Blackburn and his brother, Lawrence Fontaine Tucker, are the only two of the nine sons of Rt. Rev. Beverley D. Tucker, D. D., bishop coadjutor of the Epis- copal Diocese of Southern Virginia, now re- siding in Norfolk, the former home of the honored bishop, who now resides in Lynch- burg, Virginia.

Richard Blackburn Tucker, son of Rt. Rev. Beverley D. Tucker, D. D., was born in Norfolk, Virginia, June 3, 1886. After preparatory courses in private schools and Norfolk Academy, he entered the Univer- sity of V^irginia, whence he was graduated, class of 1906. Pie chose a business career in preference to a professional one and for two years was engaged in the importing business at Camaquey, Cuba. He then re- turned to Norfolk, the city of his birth, and formed an association with the Contractor's Supply Company, which existed until 1913, when he resigned to take the position of secretary and general manager of the Nor- folk Building Supplies Corporation, of Nor- folk. Pie is also vice-president and treas- urer of the Portsmouth Contractors' Supply Corporation, the allied houses constituting the largest corporation of their kind in Eastern Virginia. They supply everything needed in any kind of construction work and transact a very large volume of busi-

ness. .\s manager and executive officer Mr. Tucker has developed fine qualities of busi- ness leadership and is rated one of the most capable men of his particular line of activity. He is a member of the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce, is a Democrat in politics and a communicant of St. Paul's Protestant Epis- copal Church, a denomination of which his honored father is an eminent divine. His college fraternity is Alpha Tau Omega, his club, the I)orough of Norfolk.

Mr. Tucker married, October 12, 1909, Elinor U., daughter of Judge Louis and Elinor (Cherry) Hilliard, of Norfolk. Chil- dren : Elinor Hilliard, born October 14, 1910; Maria Washington, born August 30, 1912, died April 5, 1913; Richard Blackburn, born May 8, 19 14.

Lawrence Fontaine Tucker. Law-rence Fontaine Tucker was born in Norfolk, Vir- ginia, October 2, 1889. After primary tuition in private schools he entered Norfolk Acad- emy, and after finishing preparatory study entered Roanoke College in 1906, spending one year there. lie entered the University of Virginia in 1908 and there pursued a course of special study for four years, grad- uating in 1912, with the degree of Civil Engineer. After leaving the university he formed a connection with the Dupont Pow- der Company, of Wilmington, Delaw^are, and until 1914, was connected with that company in an important position, stationed at Penn's Grove, New Jersey, opposite Wil- mington. In January, 1914, he severed his connection with the Duponts and returned to Norfolk, joining his brother in the serv- ice of the Norfolk Building Supplies Cor- poration, as head of the engineering depart- ment, one of the important departments of the corporation's varied interests. He is a member of several societies, professional, fraternal and social, including the college societ}'. Alpha Tau Omega. lie is a Demo- crat in politics, and a communicant of St. Paul's I'rotestant Episcopal Church.

David Charles Spencer. Da\-id Charles Spencer, quartermaster of the Soldiers' Home, near Hampton, X'irginia, is descend- ed from two very old New^ England families. The name is of Norman origin and relates to an occupation, now generally known as steward. It was founded in the time of Wil- liam the Conqueror. The American family