Burnham, Sherburne Wesley (1838-1921)

US astronomer. He published the two-volume General Catalogue of Double Stars 1906.

Burnham was born in Thetford, Vermont. Except for short periods at the Washburn and Lick observatories, he worked as a fulltime shorthand writer in the law courts until he retired 1902. He lived and worked in Chicago 1897-1914, and on two nights each week commuted to the Yerkes Observatory, where he used the 102-cm/40-in refractor for observing close double stars.