Samuel S. Pague • Obituary Notice (Association of Graduates USMA, 1900)

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The text that follows is reproduced from (the report of the) Thirty-First Annual Reunion of the Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy, June 12th, 1900.

p34 Samuel S. Pague
No. 2635. Class of 1876.
Died, July 7, 1899, at Chicago, Ill., aged 44.

Samuel S. Pague was born in Ohio in 1855, and appointed to West Point from the same State. He entered the Academy in 1872 and graduated number forty-three in 1876. He was assigned to the Fifteenth Infantry and served with that regiment on frontier duty in New Mexico, Colorado, Dakota and California to April, 1886. He was at the Pennsylvania State College from 1886 to 1889. He last service was at Fort Sheridan, Ill. For an assault, with intent to kill, upon his commanding officer, he was court-martialed and dismissed December 31, 1895. His career in civil life is not known. He ended life by committing suicide in a Chicago hotel.

Secretary of the Association.

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p34 Samuel S. Pague No. 2635. Class of 1876. Died, July 7, 1899, at Chicago, Ill., aged 44.

p34 Samuel S. Pague
No. 2635. Class of 1876.
Died, July 7, 1899, at Chicago, Ill., aged 44.