Editing William Seward Burroughs I (section)

== Company founder ==
Burroughs founded the [[American Arithmometer Company]] in 1886. After his death, in 1904 partner John Boyer renamed the business the Burroughs Adding Machine Company.

He was awarded the [[Franklin Institute]]'s [[John Scott Legacy Medal]] shortly before his death.<ref name=":1" /> He was posthumously inducted into the [[National Inventors Hall of Fame]].<ref name=":2" /> He was the grandfather of [[Beat Generation]] writer [[William S. Burroughs]] and great-grandfather of [[William S. Burroughs Jr.]], who was also a writer.

Burroughs also received a patent for an electric alarm clock in 1892.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.newspapers.com/clip/33392755/patents_and_trademarks_issued_to/|title=Patents and Trade-marks: Issued to Southwestern Inventors During the Past Week|newspaper=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|date=14 February 1892 |page=16 |language=en|access-date=2019-06-30}}</ref>

He died in [[Citronelle, Alabama|Citronelle, Mobile County, Alabama]]<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.newspapers.com/clip/33386886/with_the_courts/|title=With the Courts|newspaper=The Montgomery Advertiser |date=8 July 1899 |page=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{OpenAccess}}|language=en|access-date=2019-06-30}}</ref> and was interred in [[Bellefontaine Cemetery]] in St. Louis, Missouri.