Goodyear
Current regionNew York
Place of originEngland
MembersFrank H. Goodyear
Charles W. Goodyear
Anson Goodyear
Connected familiesRomanov family
Knox family
Roosevelt family
Thurn und Taxis family
Estate(s)Goodyear House, A. Conger Goodyear House, Goodyear Cottage

The Goodyear family is a prominent family from New York, whose members founded, owned and ran several businesses, including the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad, Great Southern Lumber Company, Goodyear Lumber Co., Buffalo & Susquehanna Coal and Coke Co., and the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad Company[citation needed]. Stephen Goodyear was a founder of the New Haven Colony, and served as Deputy governor from 1643 to 1658.[1] Stephen's descendent, Charles Goodyear, invented vulcanized rubber; the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is named after him. The family was also involved in the arts[citation needed] . Anson Goodyear was an organizer of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; he served as its first president and a member of the board of trustees.[2] William Henry Goodyear was the first curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Prominent members

Charles W. Goodyear

Main article: Charles W. Goodyear

(October 15, 1846 – April 16, 1911) was an American lawyer, businessman, lumberman, and member of the prominent Goodyear family of New York. Based in Buffalo, New York, along with his brother, Frank, Charles was the founder and president of several companies, including the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad, Great Southern Lumber Company, Goodyear Lumber Co., Buffalo & Susquehanna Coal and Coke Co., and the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad Company.

In the late 19th century, his brother and he were highly successful in harvesting timber from formerly isolated areas of Pennsylvania and New York. They built railroad spurs to provide access to the properties and local sawmills, using the railroads to transport lumber to market. In the early 20th century, they used this same strategy in the South. They bought several hundred thousand acres of virgin pine forest in Louisiana and Mississippi, built the largest sawmill in the world, and developed the company town of Bogalusa, Louisiana, for the workers to support their operation. They also built a railroad to serve the operation and connect it to markets. Goodyear was also a director of Marine National Bank, and of General Railway Signal.

Frank H. Goodyear

Main article: Frank H. Goodyear

Frank, the younger brother of Charles W. Goodyear, married Josephine and together they had four children: (1) Grace Goodyear, who married Ganson Depew in 1894. Depew was the nephew of Chauncey Depew, President of New York Central and United States Senator from New York from 1900–1911[citation needed]. Ganson was admitted to the bar in 1887, but stopped practicing law to work for his father-in-law and became Manager of Goodyear Lumber Co., vice-president of Buffalo and Susquehanna Coal, and assistant to the President of the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad.[3] (2) Josephine Goodyear, who married George Montgomery Sicard in 1900[citation needed]. Sicard came from Utica, New York; his paternal uncle, George J. Sicard, was a partner of Cleveland, Bissell & Sicard, and later of Goodyear's firm of Bissell, Sicard & Goodyear[citation needed]. George Sicard attended Yale University, entering with the class of 1894, and leaving at the end of his freshman year to attend the University of the State of New York, where he received his LL.B. in 1895[citation needed]. He moved to Buffalo where he began practice with Moot, Sprague & Brownell[citation needed]. After his marriage to Josephine, he went to work for the Goodyear companies[citation needed]. Josephine died in 1904. Soon afterward Sicard, who purportedly did not get along well with his father-in-law Frank Goodyear, resigned from the Goodyear companies and moved to Pelham Manor for the last 30 years of his life.[3] (3) Florence Goodyear, who married George Olds Wagner in 1902 in Buffalo[citation needed]. Florence attended the now defunct Saint Margaret's School, Buffalo, and finishing school in New York City[citation needed]. Wagner was a graduate of Cornell University.[3] (4) Frank Henry Goodyear, Jr., who married Dorothy Knox. Dorothy was the daughter of Seymour and Grace Knox[citation needed]. Knox was known for forming the F. W. Woolworth Company with his cousin Frank Winfield Woolworth, and held prominent positions in the Marine Trust Co[citation needed]. The Knoxes lived in Buffalo and East Aurora[citation needed]. They had a winter cottage on Jekyll Island, Georgia[citation needed]. After Frank Jr. died in 1930, his widow Dorothy Knox Goodyear later married Edmund Pendleton Rogers (1882–1966) in 1931[citation needed].

Anson Conger Goodyear

Main article: Anson Goodyear

Charles W. Goodyear V

Main article: Chip Goodyear

Family tree

See also

References

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