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Frank H. Goodyear

Frank Henry Goodyear (March 7, 1849 – May 13, 1907) was an American businessman, lumberman, and member of the prominent Goodyear family of New York. He 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.

For the English classicist, see Frank Goodyear.

Frank H. Goodyear

Frank Henry Goodyear

(1849-03-07)March 7, 1849
Groton, New York

May 13, 1907(1907-05-13) (aged 58)

Buffalo, New York
Josephine Looney
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(m. 1871)​

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Bradley Goodyear
Esther Permelia Kinne

Charles W. Goodyear (brother)

Early life[edit]

Goodyear was born on March 7, 1849, in Groton, New York, but soon after his birth, the family moved to Holland in Erie County. He was a son of Dr. Bradley Goodyear (1816–1889), and Esther Permelia (née Kinne) Goodyear (1822–1907). His elder brother was Charles W. Goodyear, who was the father of Anson Goodyear. His father had been a tailor until Bradley's uncle, Dr. Miles Goodyear, president of the Cortland County Medical Society persuaded him to study at Geneva Medical College.[1]


He attended the district school and East Aurora Academy before Frank began teaching in the district school.[1]

Grace Esther Goodyear (1872–1914), who married Ganson Depew, nephew of U.S. Senator Chauncey M. Depew, in 1894. They divorced in 1909 and she married "Wyoming cattle king" Ashton Howard Potter,[10] the youngest son of Howard Potter and nephew of Bishop Horatio Potter, in 1910.[11] They built the El Pomar Estate in Colorado Springs, Colorado.[12][13]

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Josephine Goodyear (1874–1904), who married George Montgomery Sicard, a son of Stephen Sicard, in 1900. His uncle, , was a law partner of Grover Cleveland in the firm, Cleveland, Bissell & Sicard.[14]

George J. Sicard

Florence Goodyear (1884–1958), who married George Olds Wagner in 1902. They divorced and she married eight-time Olympic medalist in 1909.[15]

Charles Meldrum Daniels

Frank Henry Goodyear Jr. (1891–1930), who married Dorothy Virginia Knox, a daughter of Seymour H. Knox I, in 1915.[17] After his death, she married widower Edmund Pendleton Rogers in 1931.[18]

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