Countess Pecorini in America
Noted portrait painter returns to New York for short respite from work in Europe. (Int'l Newsreel)
Watertown Daily Standard, 1924Born: 1875
Died: c. November 6, 1963
Married: Charles F. Stearns (divorced); Count Daniele Pecorini
Children: Howard B. Stearns
Margaret Bucknell Pecorini had a camp north of Pine Point on Upper Saranac Lake; the land was a gift from her mother, Emma Bucknell, dated July 27, 1898. Emma visited her daughter in Rome in 1912 and was returning aboard the Titanic when it sank. She was rescued on boat eight, the boat that Ida and Nathan Straus refused to board.
She was an artist, known for her painting Baby in White Cap, in collection of the Brooklyn Museum.
Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. XXXIX, July – December, 1902
C. Hollister Judd, M.D., to Miss Gertrude Bucknell, both of Philadelphia, at Pine Point Lodge, Upper Saranac, N. Y., July 31.
New York Times, November 6, 1963
COUNTESS PECORINI
Countess Margaret Bucknell Pecorini, widow of Count Daniele Pecorini of Rome, died on Monday in Palisade Nursing Home, Guttenberg, N. J. She was 88 years old, and formerly lived in the Madison Square Hotel, New York City.
Baby in White Cap
Margaret Bucknell Pecorini
Countess Pecorini, who was born in Philadelphia, was the daughter of William Bucknell, who gave large endowments to the university named for him. In World War I, she worked with the American Red Cross unit in Italy, and in World War II, with the Red Cross in London.
Her first marriage to the late Charles F. Stearns, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, ended in divorce.
Surviving are a son, Howard B. Stearns of New York; two grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
New York Sun, June 28, 1914
OUTDOOR LIFE IN THE ADIRONDACKS
The week has marked the arrival of a number of campers at the palatial homes along the Upper Saranac Lake. Among them are the Countess Pecorini and party from Rome, Italy, who are at the Countess's camp on Pine Point.
Lake Placid news, July 10, 1914
...Countess Pecorini of Rome, Italy, who is spending the summer at Upper Saranac Lake, pulled the largest fish from the waters of Upper Saranac Lake recently, when she landed an eighteen pound northern pike after a struggle of forty-five minutes.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, June 26, 1921
UPPER SARANAC
The Countess Pecorini, formerly Miss Bucknell, daughter of the founder of Bucknell University, has arrived with her two sons at her camp on the Upper Saranac.
New York Sun, June 26, 1925
MRS. BUCKNELL AT CAMP.
Filed at the Library of Congress under Countess Petorini. (no date)
Thanks to Jane Critchlow for bringing this photograph to our attention.Upper Saranac. N. Y., June 26. — Mrs. W. E. Bucknell, widow of the founder of Bucknell University, is at her camp, Pine Point Lodge. Her daughter, Countess Pecorini, is at Camp Hideaway, adjoining her mother's camp.
Albany Times Union, 1924
Mrs. W. E. Bucknell, widow of the founder of Bucknell university, has arrived at her Camp Pine Point Lodge on Upper Saranac Lake. She is accompanied by her daughter, Countess Pecorini, who occupies Camp Hideaway nearby.
New York Times, June 28, 1925
...Mrs. W. K. Bucknell, widow of the founder of Bucknell University, is at her camp Pine Point Lodge, Upper Saranac Lake, and her daughter, Countess Pecorinia, [sic] occupies Camp Hideaway.
