George S. Burnap (1845-1891) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Marietta, Georgia. In 1852 he moved with his family first to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and then, prior to 1860, to Poughkeepsie, New York. He graduated as a cadet from Highland Military Academy, in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1862. In the 1870s he followed his family to Marietta, where his father had an opportunity to go into the banking profession. Burnap was a portrait and landscape painter and also an inventor. He married Elizabeth W. H. Burnap (b. Skinner) in St. Heliers, Jersey, England, in 1880, and they moved to Paris, France, where Elizabeth died in 1881. Burnap subsequently moved back to Marietta where he remained for the rest of his life. In 1885, he invented and filed for a patent on a cleaner for bolting-reel cloths. In July 1886, he wrote to Mary Baker Eddy to order a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures to be sent to his mother, Jane S. Burnap. Based on the records available, we have found no further information concerning his involvement with Christian Science.

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