William Seward Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs (January 28, 1857 - September 14, 1898) was an American inventor, born in Rochester, New York.

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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.

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He died in Citronelle, Alabama and was interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.

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