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that fell to his lot, and thus to leave an indelible impress upon the 

 history of the science to which he was primarily devoted. 



Mr. Sennett was a man of marked business ability, and the 

 manufacturing interests in which he was engaged left him 

 through most of his life, little opportunity for scientiiic research ; 

 but he, too, impelled by the instincts of a true naturalist, has left 

 his mark upon the progress of American ornithology, and has 

 contributed not a little in the way of ' bricks and straw ' to the 

 construction of that edifice, for the perfection of which we are all 

 lending our efforts, each in proportion to his opportunities and 

 endowments. 



George Burritt Sennett was l^orn in Sinclairville, Chautauqua 

 County, New York. July 28, 1840. and died at Youngstown, Ohio, 

 March 18, 1900. He passed most of his life, however, in Erie 

 and Crawford Counties, Pennsylvania. His ancestry on his 

 father's side was Scotch and on his mother's side, English. He 

 was the only child of Pardon Sennett, a successful business man, 

 and a pioneer in the iron interests of western Penn.sylvania, he at 

 one time owning and operating three blast furnaces — at Erie, 

 Mercer and Middlesex, Pennsylvania. 



George B. Sennett was graduated from the Erie Academy, and 

 later passed four years at a preparatory school in Delaware 

 County, New York, where he fitted for Yale College. After cred- 

 itably passing his entrance examination, however, the partial fail- 

 ure of his eyes, and the opportunity for travel abroad oifered him 

 by his father, led him to abandon his college course for a sojourn 

 of four years in Europe. He traveled through Austria, Bavaria 

 and Germany, residing for a considerable time in Vienna and 

 Nuremberg, where he studied the German language ; he also 

 spent a year in Paris, there, under a special instructor, acquiring 

 a fair knowledge of French. In later years he always referred 

 with satisfaction to this long sojourn abroad, the information and 

 experience thus gained proving valuable to him in his subsequent 

 business career. 



Soon after his return to this country, in 1865, he began the 

 manufacture of oil-well machinery at Meadville, Pennsylvania, 

 including, later, a new type of engine of his own invention. In 

 1896 he moved his extensive works to Youngstown, Ohio, and 



