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[[File:Countess%20Pecorini.jpg|right|]][[File:Countess%20Pecorini.jpg|right|thumb||Countess Pecorini in America<br>|Noted portrait painter returns to New York for short respite from work in Europe. (Int'l Newsreel)<br>|Watertown Daily Standard, 1924]]'''Born:''' 1875

'''Died:''' c. November 6, 1963

'''Married:''' Charles F. Stearns (divorced); Count [[Daniele%20Pecorini|Daniele Pecorini]]

'''Children:''' Howard B. Stearns

'''Margaret Bucknell Pecorini''' had [[Pecorini%20Camp|a camp]] north of [[Pine%20Point|Pine Point]] on [[Upper%20Saranac%20Lake|Upper Saranac Lake]]; the land was a gift from her mother, [[Emma%20Bucknell|Emma Bucknell]], dated <span>July 27, 1898.  Emma visited her daughter in Rome in 1912 and was returning aboard the ''Titanic'' when it sank.  She was rescued on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboats_of_the_RMS_Titanic|boat eight]], the boat that Ida and [[Nathan%20Straus|Nathan Straus]] refused to board.

She was an artist, known for her painting Baby in White Cap, in collection of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Museum|Brooklyn Museum]].
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''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.
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''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.

[[File:Baby%20in%20white%20cap.jpg|right|]][[File:Baby%20in%20white%20cap.jpg|right|thumb|[[https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/29432|Baby in White Cap]]<br>|Margaret Bucknell Pecorini]]<br>Countess Pecorini, who was born in Philadelphia, was the daughter of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bucknell|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.
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<span>''New York Sun'', June 28, 1914

'''<span>OUTDOOR LIFE IN THE ADIRONDACKS'''

<span>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.


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''<span>Lake Placid news'', July 10, 1914

<span>...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.
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<span>''Brooklyn Daily Eagle'', June 26, 1921

'''<span>UPPER SARANAC'''

<span>The<span> <span>Countess<span> <span>Pecorini,<span> <span>formerly Miss Bucknell, daughter of<span> <span>the founder of<span> <span>Bucknell University,<span> <span>has<span> <span>arrived with her two sons at her camp on <span>the Upper<span style=""> <span>Saranac.


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<span>''New York Sun'', June 26, 1925

'''<span>MRS.<span> <span>BUCKNELL<span> <span>AT CAMP.'''

[[File:countess%20pecorini.jpg|right|]][[File:countess%20pecorini.jpg|right|thumb||Filed at the Library of Congress under Countess Pe<u>|t</u>|orini. (no date)<br>|Thanks to Jane Critchlow for bringing this photograph to our attention.]]<span>Upper <span>Saranac.<span> <span><span>N.<span> <span>Y.,<span> <span>June<span> <span>26. — <span>Mrs. <span>W.<span> <span>E.<span> <span>Bucknell,<span> <span>widow<span> <span>of<span> <span>the <span>founder<span> <span>of<span> <span>Bucknell <span>University, is <span>at <span>her<span> <span>camp, <span>Pine<span> <span>Point<span> <span>Lodge<span>. <span>Her <span>daughter, <span>Countess<span style=""> <span>Pecorini,<span> <span>is<span> <span>at <span>Camp<span> <span>Hideaway,<span> <span>adjoining<span> <span>her<span> <span>mother's camp.

 
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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.<span>  She is accompanied by her daughter, Countess Pecorini, who occupies Camp Hideaway nearby.
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''<span>New York Times''<span>, June 28, 1925

<span>...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%20Hideaway|Camp Hideaway]].

 

 

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