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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 Coke Co., and the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad Company. 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 . 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.

Goodyear

New York

England

Frank H. Goodyear
Charles W. Goodyear
Anson Goodyear

Romanov family
Knox family
Roosevelt family
Thurn und Taxis family

Goodyear House, A. Conger Goodyear House, Goodyear Cottage

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 during World War II. He founded the Environmental Research Institute, an environmental organization involved in research on the grizzly bear population in Yellowstone Park.[4]

Yale University

Daughter Dorothy Knox Goodyearf attended the Foxcroft School and made her debut on Long Island and at Buffalo in 1935. She married Clinton Randolph Wyckoff Jr., of Buffalo, in 1937.[6]

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Daughter Marjorie Goodyear married a Mr. Wilson. She died sometime before September 2015.

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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 Yale University, 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 in 1947 and 1948. Also on the baseball team was his good friend, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States of America. Robert moved to Aiken, South Carolina, in 1951. There he purchased Longleaf Plantation with his brother, Frank, and developed a successful Aberdeen Angus 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.[7]

World War II

Charles W. Goodyear

Great Southern Lumber Company

Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad

Anson Goodyear

Charles W. Goodyear House

Chip Goodyear

Bogalusa, Louisiana

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