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, 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]
Dr. Stephen Goodyear (1915–1998), ∞ (1) Aline Fox (d. 1943) in 1942. (2) ∞ Mary Van Rensselaer Robins (1919–2006),[25] the granddaughter of
Thomas Robins Jr., in 1944.[26] 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.[25][27]
Ann Watson (1916–1954) ∞ Edward B. Bickford (1909–1995), the son of
Harold Childe Bickford & Mary Davidson Bickford.[30]
Mary Ann Bickford (b. 1939) ∞ Richard Bolling Patton (b. 1930)[30]
Patricia Bickford (b. 1941) ∞ (1) Allen Lytel Greenough (b. 1941), div. 1976.; ∞ (2) Thomas Peter Donnelly (b. 1942) in 1976.[30]
Susan Bickford (1944–1972) ∞ William Neil Thomas, III (b. 1944)[30]
Edward Watson Bickford (b. 1948) ∞ Katherine May Thomson (b. 1948)[30]
Charles Waterhouse Goodyear II, (1883–1967) ∞ (1) Grace Rumsey (1883–1963) in 1908, the younger sister of
Charles Cary Rumsey (1879–1922) and niece of
George Cary (1859–1945), div.; ∞ (2) Marion Spaulding (mother to Stephen Van Rensselaer Spaulding Jr.) in 1935.[31]
Charles W. Goodyear III (1909–1968) ∞ Mary E. Thompson (1911–2000)[citation needed]
Charles W. Goodyear IV (b. 1933)
aka "Charles W. Goodyear III"[citation needed]
James Lyles Goodyear ∞ Mary Ann Keller in 1983.[32]
Florence Goodyear (d. 1958) ∞ George Olds Wagner in 1902[3]
Frank Henry Goodyear, Jr. (1891–1930) ∞ (1) Dorothy Knox (1896–1982), the daughter of
Seymour H. Knox and sister of
Seymour H. Knox II, (FHG Jr.'s death 1930); ∞ (2) Edmund Pendleton Rogers (1882–1966) in 1931.[54][55]
Frank Henry Goodyear, III (1918–2013) ∞ (1) Alison Robinson Harrison in 1940 (her death, 1966); ∞ (2) Caroline Wyeth; ∞ (3) Margaret Chew[56]