Stephen Augustus Pace
Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas
Marker Inscription
(September 19, 1848-March 1, 1921) Stephen Augustus Pace came to Texas in 1868. He settled first in Fairfield, where he met and married Achsah Maddox. They moved to Corsicana in 1871. Pace established a wholesale grocery business and was active in a number of civic organizations. He served as a city alderman and as police and light commissioner. He was a director of the Corsicana commercial club (forerunner of the Chamber of Commerce) and a member of the committee which established the town's public library. He lived in this house from 1887 until his death.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Stephen Augustus Pace came to Texas in 1868 and settled in Corsicana in 1871, where he built a wholesale grocery business and threw himself into civic life. He served as a city alderman and commissioner, helped found the forerunner of the Chamber of Commerce, and sat on the committee that established the town's public library. From 1887 until his death in 1921 he lived in the house this marker commemorates.
Why it matters
Pace's career illustrates the merchant-civic leaders who built the institutions — chambers, libraries, city governments — of the small Texas towns that grew during the Reconstruction and Gilded Age.
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