acres (243 km²). During the course of his work in Texas, Pearson founded the town of Natalia, naming it after his daughter, Natalie Pearson Nicholson. In 1913, he negotiated a deal with the Spanish government for a hydro project on the Ebro River and formed the Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company to carry out the construction that was completed in 1915. However, World War I limited his activity. He and his wife, Mabel Ward Pearson, lost their lives on May 7, 1915, while travelling to England on business and to visit his daughter Natalie who was then living there. They were on the ocean liner when it was torpedoed off the southern coast of Ireland by German U-boat . They are interred in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City. Pearson Hall, home of the Chemistry Department at Tufts University, is named for him. References External links Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online Biography at The Lusitania Resource An Extreme Power Engineer: The Accomplishments Of Fred Stark Pearson, Part One, IEEE.org 1861 births 1915 deaths Engineers from Massachusetts American financiers Deaths on the RMS Lusitania People from Lowell, Massachusetts Tufts University School of Engineering alumni 19th-century American businesspeople