William Roberson (c. 1836-1878) was an American barber, proprietor of a bathing and shaving saloon with a Victorian Turkish bath, and civil rights activist in St. Louis, Missouri.
Before the American Civil War, he and his brother Francis Jefferson Roberson established a barber shop at the Barnum's St. Louis Hotel.
[6][7] Roberson helped support James A. Johnson's St. Louis Blue Stockings baseball team.
[8][9] A St. Louis periodical published an image of his brother cutting hair.
[11] His son Frank Roberson studied at Oberlin and the University of Karlsruhe.