William Seward Burroughs
Categories: U.S. inventors | American entrepreneurs | Business leaders | 1855 births | 1898 deaths | Rochesterians
- This article is about the inventor. For the novelist, see William S. Burroughs.
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Patent no. 388,116 on a "calculating machine".
William Seward Burroughs (January 28, 1857 - 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.it:William Seward Burroughs pl:William Seward Burroughs