Greenbrier County, West Virginia         Biography of S. NELSON PACE.

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History of Greenbrier County 
J. R. Cole 
Lewisburg, WV 1917 
p. 198-199

S. NELSON PACE.

S. Nelson Pace, lawyer of Lewisburg, is a native of Virginia, born at 
Culpeper, August 21, 1883. The earlier years of his life were spent in the 
city of his birth and at Danville, Va., graduating from the Culpeper High 
School in 1897. His first venture in the business world was in the employ of 
a bank at Richmond, Va., then in the same city and elsewhere, including 
Madison, Wis., New York City and Lancaster, Pa., for the American Tobacco 
Company.

Following, came a three years course of study in the University of Wisconsin 
in academic and medical work, and also one year at the Medical College of 
Virginia. He later graduated from the law school of the University of 
Virginia, in 1910.

In July of that year he located in Lewisburg, where he began he practice of 
law, being at present a commissioner in chancery of the circuit court of 
Greenbrier.

IMr. Pace was married to Miss Hallie E. Moore, daughter of Judge Charles 
Forest Moore, of New York City, and a grand-daughter of Mrs. Minerva Beard, 
of Lewisburg. Two sons were born to this union.

Mr. Pace is a member of the Masonic order, including the Knights Templar and 
the Shrine, and is also a Thirty-Second Degree Mason.  He is a member of the 
Elks, a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity, and the Pi Mu medical fraternity.