PECKHAM, JOHN M.(CAPITAL REGION)

ALBANY -- John M. Peckham, 69, son of the late William M. and Elizabeth Peckham of Troy, NY, died at the Albany Medical Center after a short illness. He had been living in Arlington, VT in recent years. He was a self-trained automotive artist of exceptional skill whose work is prized today. He also edited and published a quarterly called `The Phoenix` whose focus was a fire apparatus history, for which he earned high respect as an outstanding authority on the American La France fire engine. His first automotive art was for the Automobilists of the Upper Hudson Valley. Peckham was on the editorial staff from the age of 19 until it was discontinued in 1963. In the late 1950's …