Goodyear TIRE
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The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tire manufacturer headquartered in Akron, Ohio. Goodyear manufactures tires for passenger vehicles, aviation, commercial trucks, military and police vehicles, motorcycles, RVs, race cars, and heavy off-road machinery. It also licenses the Goodyear brand to bicycle tire manufacturers, returning from a break in production between 1976 and 2015.[3] As of 2017, Goodyear is one of the top four tire manufacturers along with Bridgestone (Japan), Michelin (France), and Continental (Germany).[4]
Founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling, the company was named after American Charles Goodyear (1800–1860), inventor of vulcanized rubber. The first Goodyear tires became popular because they were easily detachable and required little maintenance.[5] Though Goodyear had been manufacturing airships and balloons since the early 1900s, the first Goodyear advertising blimp flew in 1925. Today, it is one of the most recognizable advertising icons in America.[6]
The company is the sole tire supplier for NASCAR series and the most successful tire supplier in Formula One history, with more starts, wins, and constructors' championships than any other tire supplier.[7] They pulled out of the sport after the 1998 season. Goodyear was the first global tire manufacturer to enter China when it invested in a tire manufacturing plant in Dalian in 1994. Goodyear was a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average between 1930 and 1999.[8] The company opened a new global headquarters building in Akron in 2013.
History
Goodyear factory buildings and old former headquarters complex
The original Goodyear headquarters in Akron.
Early history 1898–1926
The first Goodyear factory opened in Akron, Ohio, in 1898. The company originally manufactured bicycle and carriage tires, rubber horseshoe pads, and poker chips, and grew with the advent of the automobile.[9]
In 1901, Goodyear founder Frank Seiberling provided Henry Ford with racing tires.[10] In 1903, Goodyear president, chairman and CEO Paul Weeks Litchfield was granted a patent for the first tubeless automobile tire.[11] In 1910, the company purchased an existing rubber factory in Bowmanville, Ontario, in Canada, which expanded their manufacturing outside of the United States for the first time.[12]
In 1916, Litchfield found land in the Phoenix area suitable for growing long-staple cotton, which was needed to reinforce its rubber in tires. The 36,000 acres purchased were controlled by the Southwest Cotton Company, formed with Litchfield as president. (This included land that would develop into the towns of Goodyear and Litchfield Park.)
In 1924, Litchfield forged a joint venture with the German Luftschiffbau Zeppelin Company to form the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation.[13] From the late 1920s to 1940, the company worked with Goodyear to build two Zeppelins in the United States. The partnership continued even when Zeppelin was under Nazi control and only ended after World War II began.[14]
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:{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].}:
- Frank Jr.'s son, Frank Henry Goodyear, III, was known as "Frank Goodyear, Sr." He graduated from Yale University 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]
- Daughter Dorothy Knox Goodyearf[5] attended the Foxcroft School and made her debut on Long Island and at Buffalo in 1935[citation ^needed]. She married Clinton Randolph Wyckoff Jr., of Buffalo, in 1937.[6]
- Daughter Marjorie Goodyear married a Mr. Wilson. She died sometime before September 2015.[5]
- :{:{Son Robert Millard Goodyear was born in Buffalo, New York[citation ^needed]. He graduated from the Groton School and served as a navigator with the Eighth Air Force in the World War II[citation ^needed]. After the war he attended Yale University, graduating in 1949[citation ^needed]. 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[citation ^needed].}:
- Also on the baseball team was his good friend, George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States of America[citation ^needed]. Robert moved to Aiken, South Carolina, in 1951[citation ^needed]. There he purchased Longleaf Plantation with his brother, Frank, and developed a successful Aberdeen Angus cattle breeding operation[citation ^needed]. Robert was an avid golfer and a long-time member of the Augusta National[citation ^needed]. 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]}:
Anson Conger Goodyear
Main article: Anson Goodyear
Charles W. Goodyear V
Main article: Chip Goodyear
See also
- Charles W. Goodyear
- Great Southern Lumber Company
- Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad
- Anson Goodyear
- Charles W. Goodyear House
- Chip Goodyear
- Bogalusa, Louisiana
References
- Letter from Deputy-Governor Goodyear of New Haven to Director Stuyvesant on trade between the colonies, New York State Archives. New York (Colony). Council. Dutch colonial administrative correspondence, 1646-1664. Series A1810-78. Volume 11, document 41, page 1.
- Museum of Modern Art, Imagining the Future of The Museum of Modern Art, 1998, page 82
- ^ Jump up to:^a ^b ^c Dunn, Edward T. (2003). Buffalo's Delaware Avenue: Mansions and Families. Canisius College Press. pp. 360–362.
- "Frank Henry Goodyear Sr". codyenterprise.com. 25 February 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
- ^ Jump up to:^a ^b "The Knox Summer Estate" (PDF). buffaloah.com. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
- "Goodyear-Wyckoff". The New York Times. January 2, 1937. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- "Robert Millard GOODYEAR". The Buffalo News. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
External links
- http://buffaloah.com/a/EastAur/knox/hamilton.pdf
- Goodyear family (New York)
- American families of Dutch ancestry
- Families from New York (state)
- People from Buffalo, New York
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The credibility of MacGuire's claims was reinforced when he produced evidence of considerable cash resources and made some eerily accurate predictions regarding personnel changes in the White House. He also accurately described the still-secret but soon-to-be-announced American Liberty League, a high-profile group whose stated purpose was to "defend and uphold the Constitution." The League's principal players were comprised of wealthy Americans, including the leaders of DuPont, JP Morgan, US Steel, General Motors, Standard Oil, Colgate, Heinz Foods, Chase National Bank, and Goodyear Tire. There are some who claim that Prescott Bush-- father to the 41st US President and grandfather to the 43rd-- was also entangled in the scheme.
On 22 August 1934, upon his return from a fact-finding trip to Europe, Gerald MacGuire dropped all pretense when he met with General Butler at an empty hotel restaurant. He indicated that his financial backers aimed to assemble an army of half a million disgruntled veterans, sown from the seeds of the original Bonus Army. He also stated that the group would like Butler to be the leader of this force."We've got three million [dollars] to start with on the line," MacGuire claimed, "and we can get three hundred million if we need it."
According to MacGuire, the League's members could easily manipulate the media to provide public approval. He went on to suggest that the League planned to protect the country from communism by mimicking the methods of Benito Mussolini, a dictator who had risen to power a decade earlier with the support of a veteran militia. Mussolini's fascist government had successfully restored Italy's industrial viability, so it was deemed as an ideal model for repairing America's impoverished economy. According to the plan, Roosevelt and other existing US leadership would be allowed to remain as figureheads, while the true policy-making power would fall to a new cabinet position which Smedley Butler would occupy: The Secretary for General Affairs.
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