William Morton Meredith (1835–1917) was an official in the United States Department of the Treasury who was Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from 1889 to 1893 and from 1900 to 1906.

[1] He attended a year of college, but left shortly to work in his father's printing office.

[1] While he was posted at Wauhatchie in March 1864, he received a telegram informing him that his wife had contracted spotted fever; she later died of this illness.

[1] He developed a hernia because of a hard-riding horse and was discharged from the Union Army in Atlanta, Georgia in August 1864.

[2] He remained employed in the United States Department of the Treasury until his death of bronchopneumonia in 1917 at age 82.