Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthday

January 28, 1857

Place of Birth

Rochester, New York, USA

Died

September 15, 1898

William Seward Burroughs I

Biography

William Seward Burroughs I was an American inventor and best known for the "calculating machine" ,first patent filed in 1885, designed to ease the monotony of clerical work. He was the gran father of the writer William S. Burroughs (1914-1997).