William Scarbrough

William Scarbrough (February 18, 1776 – June 11, 1838) was an American sea merchant. He was one of the principal owners of the SS Savannah, which in 1819 became the first steamship in the world to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

Life and career Scarbrough was born in Barnwell County, South Carolina, in 1776, the son of William Sr., a wealthy planter,

He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, before moving to Savannah, Georgia, around 1798.

He became a bank director, an election manager, a member of the board of health, a vestryman at Savannah's Christ Church, was on the vice council of Denmark and Sweden, and was council general of Russia. He was 62. He was interred in a vault in Savannah's Colonial Park Cemetery along with his wife, who survived him by thirteen years.