William Seward Burroughs I
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- This article is about the inventor. For the novelist, see William S. Burroughs.
William Seward Burroughs I (January 28, 1855 - September 14, 1898) was an American inventor, born in Rochester, New York.
Initially a bank clerk, he invented a "calculating machine" designed to calculate the area of fur skins. He was a founder of the American Arithmometer Company. He was the grandfather of William S. Burroughs the writer.
He died in Citronelle, Alabama and was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.
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