The Goodyear family is a prominent family from New York, whose members founded, owned and ran several businesses, including the

Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad The Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad was a railroad company that formerly operated in western and north central Pennsylvania and western New York. It was created in 1893 by the merger and consolidation of several smaller logging railroads. It o ...

Great Southern Lumber Company The Great Southern Lumber Company was chartered in 1902 to harvest and market the virgin longleaf pine (''Pinus palustris'' L.) forests in southeastern Louisiana and southwestern Mississippi. Bogalusa, Louisiana was developed from the ground up a ...

, Goodyear Lumber Co., Buffalo & Susquehanna Coal and Coke Co., and the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad Company. Stephen Goodyear was a founder of the

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, and served as governor from 1643-1658. Stephen's descendent,

Charles Goodyear Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860) was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844. ...

, invented vulcanized rubber; the

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is named after him. The family was also involved in the arts .

Anson Goodyear Anson Conger Goodyear (June 20, 1877 – April 24, 1964) was an American manufacturer, businessman, author, and philanthropist and member of the Goodyear family. He is best known as one of the founding members and first president of the Museum of ...

was an organizer of the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...

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; he served as its first

president President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

and a member of the

board of trustees A board of directors (commonly referred simply as the board) is an executive committee that jointly supervises the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit or a nonprofit organization such as a business, nonprofit organiz ...

.Museum of Modern Art
''Imagining the Future of The Museum of Modern Art''
1998, page 82

William Henry Goodyear William Henry Goodyear (1846–1923) was a noted architectural historian, art historian, and museum curator. He was the son of Charles Goodyear (1800–1860), inventor of rubber vulcanization, and Clarissa Beecher Goodyear. Goodyear was ...

was the first curator of the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

Prominent members

Charles W. Goodyear

(October 15, 1846 – April 16, 1911) was an American lawyer, businessman,

lumberman Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport. It may include skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks or skeleton cars. Logging is the beginning of a supply chain ...

, and member of the prominent

Goodyear family 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 Co ...

of New York. Based in Buffalo, New York, along with his brother, Frank, Charles was the founder and president of several companies, including the

, 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 Marine National Bank is located in Wildwood, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. The building was first built in 1908. In 1927 it was rebuilt and doubled in size. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 20, ...

, and of

General Railway Signal General Railway Signal Company (GRS) was an American manufacturing company located in the Rochester, New York area. GRS was focused on railway signaling equipment, systems and services. The company was established in 1904 and became part of Alstom# ...

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 Chauncey Mitchell Depew (April 23, 1834April 5, 1928) was an American attorney, businessman, and Republican politician. He is best remembered for his two terms as United States Senator from New York and for his work for Cornelius Vanderbilt, as ...

, President of

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and

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from New York from 1900–1911. 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

. (2) Josephine Goodyear, who married George Montgomery Sicard in 1900. Sicard came from

Utica, New York Utica () is a Administrative divisions of New York, city in the Mohawk Valley and the county seat of Oneida County, New York, United States. The List of cities in New York, tenth-most-populous city in New York State, its population was 65,283 ...

; his paternal uncle, George J. Sicard, was a partner of ''Cleveland, Bissell & Sicard'', and later of Goodyear's firm of ''Bissell, Sicard & Goodyear''. George Sicard attended

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

, 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 The University of the State of New York (USNY, ) is the state of New York (state), New York's governmental umbrella organization for both public and private institutions in New York State. The "university" is not an educational institution: it i ...

, where he received his LL.B. in 1895. He moved to Buffalo where he began practice with ''Moot, Sprague & Brownell''. After his marriage to Josephine, he went to work for the Goodyear companies. 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 Pelham Manor is an affluent village located in Westchester County, New York. As of the 2020 census, the village had a total population of 5,752. It is located in the town of Pelham. History The Bolton Priory, Edgewood House, and Pelhamdale are ...

for the last 30 years of his life. (3) Florence Goodyear, who married George Olds Wagner in 1902 in Buffalo. Florence attended the now defunct Saint Margaret's School, Buffalo, and finishing school in New York City. Wagner was a graduate of

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

. (4) Frank Henry Goodyear, Jr., who married Dorothy Knox. Dorothy was the daughter of Seymour and Grace Knox. Knox was known for forming the

F. W. Woolworth Company The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or simply Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the pioneers of the five-and-dime store. It was among the most successful American and international five-and-dime businesses, se ...

with his cousin Frank Winfield Woolworth, and held prominent positions in the Marine Trust Co. The Knoxes lived in Buffalo and

East Aurora East Aurora is a village in Erie County, New York, United States, southeast of Buffalo. It lies in the eastern half of the town of Aurora. The village population was 5,998 per the 2020 census. It is part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls Met ...

. They had a winter cottage on

Jekyll Island, Georgia Jekyll Island is located off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia, in Glynn County. It is one of the Sea Islands and one of the Golden Isles of Georgia barrier islands. The island is owned by the State of Georgia and run by a self-sustaining, s ...

. After Frank Jr. died in 1930, his widow Dorothy Knox Goodyear later married Edmund Pendleton Rogers (1882–1966) in 1931. *Frank Jr.'s son, Frank Henry Goodyear, III, was known as "Frank Goodyear, Sr." He graduated from

in 1941, and served at the

Brooklyn Navy Yard The Brooklyn Navy Yard (originally known as the New York Navy Yard) is a shipyard and industrial complex located in northwest Brooklyn in New York City, New York. The Navy Yard is located on the East River in Wallabout Bay, a semicircular bend ...

during

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. He founded the Environmental Research Institute, an environmental organization involved in research on the

grizzly bear The grizzly bear (''Ursus arctos horribilis''), also known as the North American brown bear or simply grizzly, is a population or subspecies of the brown bear inhabiting North America. In addition to the mainland grizzly (''Ursus arctos horri ...

population in

Yellowstone Park Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellowstone ...

. *Daughter Dorothy Knox Goodyearf attended the

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and made her debut on Long Island and at Buffalo in 1935. She married Clinton Randolph Wyckoff Jr., of Buffalo, in 1937. *Daughter Marjorie Goodyear married a Mr. Wilson. She died sometime before September 2015. *Son Robert Millard Goodyear was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from the Groton School and served as a navigator with the Eighth Air Force in the

. After the war he attended

, graduating in 1949. Robert was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society and a pitcher/right fielder on the Yale baseball team, playing for Yale in the

College World Series The College World Series (CWS), officially the NCAA Men's College World Series (MCWS), is an annual baseball tournament held in June in Omaha, Nebraska. The MCWS is the culmination of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Divisi ...

in 1947 and 1948. Also on the baseball team was his good friend,

George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker BushSince around 2000, he has been usually called George H. W. Bush, Bush Senior, Bush 41 or Bush the Elder to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd president from 2001 to 2009; pr ...

, the 41st

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. Robert moved to

Aiken, South Carolina Aiken is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Aiken County, in western South Carolina. It is one of the two largest cities of the Central Savannah River Area. Founded in 1835, Aiken was named after William Aiken, the president of the Sout ...

, in 1951. There he purchased Longleaf Plantation with his brother, Frank, and developed a successful

Aberdeen Angus The Aberdeen Angus, sometimes simply Angus, is a Scottish breed of small beef cattle. It derives from cattle native to the counties of Aberdeen, Banff, Kincardine and Angus in north-eastern Scotland. In 2018 the breed accounted for over 17 ...

cattle breeding operation. Robert was an avid golfer and a long-time member of the Augusta National. In addition to golf, he was a skilled court tennis player and served as president of the Aiken Tennis Club. He lived in Aiken until his death.

Anson Conger Goodyear

Charles W. Goodyear V

Family tree

*Dr. Bradley Goodyear (1816–1889) ∞ Esther P. Goodyear (

née A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...

Kinne) (1822–1907) **

Charles W. Goodyear Charles Waterhouse 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 ...

(1846–1911) ∞ Ellen Portia ''Conger'' Goodyear (1863–1940) ***

Anson Conger Goodyear Anson Conger Goodyear (June 20, 1877 – April 24, 1964) was an American manufacturer, businessman, author, and philanthropist and member of the Goodyear family. He is best known as one of the founding members and first president of the Museum of ...

(1877–1964) ∞ Mary Forman, the daughter of George V. Forman. ****George Forman Goodyear (1906–2002) ∞ (1) Sarah Norton in 1932. (her death) ∞ (2) Marion Gurney (

Spaulding), the mother of his son-in-law. *****Mary "Molly" Forman Goodyear (b. 1935) ∞ A. R. Gurney (1930–2017), a playwright *****Anne Goodyear ∞ William H. Hudnut III (b. 1932), member of the

U.S. House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...

. ******Michael Conger Hudnut (1952–2011) ∞ Shirley RaMelle Clarke in 1983 *******Peter Hudnut *******Stephen Hudnut ∞ Danielle Hudnut ******Laura Hudnut (1954–2003) ∞ David Reed ******Timothy Hudnut ******William H. Hudnut IV (b. 1962) ******Theodore Hudnut (b. 1964) ∞ Amy Corken in 2000 *****Sarah C. Goodyear ****Mary Goodyear (1907–1977) ∞ Theodore G. Kenefick (1898–1972) ****Anson Conger Goodyear, Jr. (1911–1982) ****Dr. Stephen Goodyear (1915–1998), ∞ (1) Aline Fox (d. 1943) in 1942. (2) ∞ Mary Van Rensselaer Robins (1919–2006), the granddaughter of Thomas Robins Jr., in 1944. Robins was the granddaughter of Mary Van Rensselaer Cogswell (1839–1871) and Andrew K. Cogswell (1839–1900); div. (3) ∞ Julien D. McKee (1918–2006) in 1964. *****Zachary Goodyear *****Jessica Goodyear *****Abigail Goodyear *****Talbot Goodyear ***Esther Permelia Goodyear (1881–?) ∞ Arnold Brooks Watson (1877–?). ****Ella Portia Watson (1910–1985) ∞ Stephen V. R. Spaulding, Jr. (1909–1977) *****Esther Spaulding *****Stephen. V. R. Spaulding III ****Esther Watson (b. 1915) ∞ David Brooks Crane (1909–1954). *****Nancy Crane (b. 1940) *****Michael Crane *****Lisa Crane ****Ann Watson (1916–1954) ∞ Edward B. Bickford (1909–1995), the son of Harold Childe Bickford & Mary Davidson Bickford. *****Mary Ann Bickford (b. 1939) ∞ Richard Bolling Patton (b. 1930) *****Patricia Bickford (b. 1941) ∞ (1) Allen Lytel Greenough (b. 1941), div. 1976.; ∞ (2) Thomas Peter Donnelly (b. 1942) in 1976. *****Susan Bickford (1944–1972) ∞ William Neil Thomas, III (b. 1944) *****Edward Watson Bickford (b. 1948) ∞ Katherine May Thomson (b. 1948) ***Charles Waterhouse Goodyear II, (1883–1967) ∞ (1) Grace Rumsey (1883–1963) in 1908, the younger sister of

Charles Cary Rumsey Charles Cary Rumsey (August 29, 1879 – September 21, 1922) was an American sculptor and an eight-goal polo player. Early life Rumsey was born on August 29, 1879 in Buffalo, New York. He was the son of Laurence Dana Rumsey, a successful local ...

(1879–1922) and niece of George Cary (1859–1945), div.; ∞ (2) Marion Spaulding (mother to Stephen Van Rensselaer Spaulding Jr.) in 1935. ****Charles W. Goodyear III (1909–1968) ∞ Mary E. Thompson (1911–2000) *****Charles W. Goodyear IV (b. 1933) aka "Charles W. Goodyear III" ******James Lyles Goodyear ∞ Mary Ann Keller in 1983. ****** Charles W. Goodyear V (b. 1958), aka "Charles W. Goodyear IV" ∞ Elizabeth Dabezies in 1992 *****David L. Goodyear *****Andrew T. Goodyear (October 3, 1939 – April 13, 2001) *****Mary Easton Goodyear ****Jane Goodyear ∞ Hardin H. *****Anne Rumsey ****Laurence Rumsey Goodyear (1912–1995) ∞ Ruth A. Millett. ****Austin Goodyear (1923–2005), ∞ (1) Louisa Robins (1920–1992), the granddaughter of Thomas Robins Jr., in 1939, (her death in 1992); ∞

Sara Suleri Sara Goodyear ( Suleri; June 12, 1953 – March 20, 2022) was a Pakistan-born American author and professor of English at Yale University, where her fields of study and teaching included Romantic and Victorian poetry and an interest in Edmund ...

(1953–2022) in 1993 *****Grace Rumsey Goodyear (b. 1941) ∞

Franklin Delano Roosevelt III Franklin Delano Roosevelt III (born July 19, 1938) is an American retired economist and academic. Through his father, he is a grandson of 32nd U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, and through his mother, he is related to t ...

(b. 1938), grandson of

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...

and

Eleanor Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt () (October 11, 1884November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the first lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945, during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four ...

, in 1962 ******Phoebe Louisa Roosevelt (b. 1965) ******Nicholas Martin Roosevelt (b. 1966) ******Amelia "Amie" Roosevelt (b. 1966) *****Cullen Goodyear *****Thomas R. Goodyear ∞ Barbara Marshall (1946–2007), the daughter of Paul P. Marshall and Marian Cunningham ******Ruth Goodyear ∞ Mark Dunbar ******Heidi Goodyear ∞ Justin Sachs ******Kristi Goodyear ∞ John Powitsky ******Susan Goodyear ∞ William DeLong ******Cullen Goodyear ∞ Matthew Concannon ***Bradley Goodyear (1885–?) ∞ Jeanette Bissell (?–1983). ****Bradley Goodyear, Jr. (1911–1941/5) ∞ Suzanne Robinson. ****John Goodyear ∞ Julia Halls Owsley. *****Richard Goodyear ∞ Constance Martin ******Bradley Bissell Goodyear ∞ HSH Princess Catherine Adair Romanovskaya-Ilyinskaya, granddaughter of

Paul Ilyinsky Paul Dmitrievich Romanovsky-Ilyinsky (January 27, 1928 – February 10, 2004) was a three-time mayor of Palm Beach, Florida, and the only child of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia and his morganatic wife, Cincinnati heiress Audrey Emery. ...

. *******Esme Goodyear *******Louisa Emery Goodyear ****Frances "Fanny" Goodyear (1914–1975) ∞ (1)

Prince A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. Th ...

Ludwig "Louis" Della Torre e Tasso (1908–1985), son of Prince Alessandro della Torre e Tasso, 1st Duke of Castel Duino in 1939, (div. 1948); ∞ (2) Daniel Barton Streeter (1909–1994) in 1949, the son of Daniel W. Streeter (1883–1964). *****Alexander Frederick Bradley, Prince della Torre e Tasso (1940–2011) ∞ (1) Martha Singer (b. 1943) in 1966. (div. 1989) ∞ (2) Connie Schmid ******Louise Jeannette Torre Tasso (b. 1967) ∞

James Hoare James Edward Hoare (born 1943) is a British academic and historian specialising in Korean and Chinese studies, and a career diplomat in the British Foreign Office. Academia Dr. Hoare is a graduate of London's School of Oriental and African Studi ...

(b. 1943) ******Alexander Torre Tasso (b. 1968) ******Helen Torre Tasso (b. 1977) *****Daniel Streeter *****Bradley Streeter ****Thomas Goodyear **Frank Henry Goodyear ∞ Josephine Looney (?–1915) in 1871 ***Grace Goodyear (1872–1915) ∞ Ganson Depew (1866–1934), nephew of

, in 1894, (div. 1909). ****Lucia Depew (1900–1971) ∞ (1) Edward de Cernea (div. 1929); ∞ (2) George E. Parkinson in 1930, (div. 1934) *****Grace de Cernea ∞ Scott Hale Reiniger Sr. ******

Scott Reiniger Scott Hale Reiniger, ''Harlan Sahib Bahadur'', Prince of Ghor (born September 5, 1948) is an American actor. He is best known as one of the stars of the 1978 classic horror film '' Dawn of the Dead''. Biography Scott Hale Reiniger, Jr. was born ...

*****Patricia Parkinson ****Ganson Goodyear Depew (1896–1924) ***Josephine Goodyear (1874–1904) ∞ George Montgomery Sicard (1872–1942) in 1900. ****George Sicard (b. 1901) ****Josephine Sicard (b. 1904) ***Florence Goodyear (d. 1958) ∞ George Olds Wagner in 1902 ***Frank Henry Goodyear, Jr. (1891–1930) ∞ (1) Dorothy Knox (1896–1982), the daughter of Seymour H. Knox and sister of

Seymour H. Knox II Seymour Horace Knox II (September 1, 1898 – September 27, 1990) was a Buffalo, New York, philanthropist and polo player. The son of wealthy businessman Seymour H. Knox, he owned a palatial home designed by C. P. H. Gilbert. ****Frank Henry Goodyear, III (1918–2013) ∞ (1) Alison Robinson Harrison in 1940 (her death, 1966); ∞ (2) Caroline Wyeth; ∞ (3) Margaret Chew *****Alison Harrison Goodyear ∞ William W. Freehling (b. 1935), an author. ******Bill Freehling, Jr., a journalist. ******Alison Freehling, a journalist, ∞ Johnson *****Frank Henry Goodyear, Jr. ∞ Elizabeth Wanton Balis in 1966. ******Frank Henry Goodyear III ∞ Anne Collins in 2000. ******Grace Wanton Goodyear ∞ Adam Ingram-Eiser in 1999. ******Alison Goodyear ∞ Charles Adelle Lewis Totten in 1994. ****Dorothy Knox ''Goodyear'' Wyckoff, (1917–1999), ∞ Clinton Randolph Wyckoff Jr. in 1937. ****Marjorie Goodyear (1920–2015) ∞ Wilson ****Robert Millard Goodyear (1925–2011) ∞ Patricia Smith (1924–2013) in 1947. Goodyear was a good friend of

. *****Mary "Cici" Goodyear ∞ Henry Buckland Sawyer III in 1974. *****Robert Goodyear *****Virginia "Ginny" Goodyear ******Dana Kopald ******Laura Kopald ******Seth Kopald *****Dorothy "Dodie" Goodyear ∞ Wilson ******Amelia Wilson ******Anna Wilson *****Patricia "Patsy" Goodyear ∞ Good-Farm ******Elijah Good-Farm ******Aaron Good-Farm *****Marjorie "Margie" Goodyear

References

External links

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