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Categories Education and Inspiration Enriching the lives of Thousands of Virginians since 1948 Who We Are During the first half of the 20th century when Beazley was 15 he left school and struck out on his own borrowing 40 to buy a horsedrawn cart and starting a business delivering coal from door to door in Portsmouth. Soon the young entrepreneur realized that people needed ice too and he went on to establish 50 ice factories. He would become a selfmade millionaire during a time when millionaires of any stripe were still pretty unusual. Mr.