[4] He married Catherine on January 29, 1879, in Salt Lake City, and a year later moved from there to Nutrioso in a wagon train.

Catherine's family had immigrated from Scotland in 1860 aboard the sailing ship, The Underwriter, in a voyage which lasted 11 weeks.

[6][7] Pace was also part of a group who, in 1907, forming the Co-Operative Ice & Creamery Co., a dairy company serving the Globe, Arizona area.

[11] In 1938, Gila College posthumously dedicated their new home economics building to Pace, using money from a fund set up years earlier.

[26] In October 1911, however, Pace announced his candidacy for state senator from Graham County, seeking the Democrat nomination.

[27] He ran unopposed in the Democrat primary, and he won the general election in December, becoming the first state senator from Graham County.

However, when the superior court ruled that the state tax commissioner would not be an elected position, Claridge decided to run for the senate, and both Lines and Pace withdrew from the race.