James E. Homans, editor

“ Pearson's untiring energy and impartial appreciation, to his tremendous grasp of principles and mastery of details, to his wonderful memory and vivid imagination, to his versatility, his kindly disposition and his faith in others were due the immediate source of his successes, the unswerving loyalty and devotion without which it would have been impossible for any man to have conducted in such great and widely scattered enterprises. ”

“ Combined with his indomitable energy and versatility of intellect, he possessed a wonderful power of imagination, not merely the susceptive imagination of the poet or the artist, but the constructive, the creative imagination of the scientist. ”

“ Pearson kept himself thoroughly conversant with every phase of railway development, and his work showed the highest degree of scientific accuracy. No greater eulogy can be written of him than that he was a gentleman of high character, who had his struggles and his vicissitudes, and through it all strove to do his duty. He maintained residences at Great Barrington, Mass., where he had an estate of 13,000 acres ”