[4] While at Yale, Goodyear was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and the Wolf's Head Society; there he began collecting limited and first editions of books.

[1] According to Kendrick Clements: During World War II, Goodyear was commander of the Second Brigade of the New York Guard, with the rank of major general.

[9] Later in World War II, he was a deputy commissioner for the Pacific Ocean area, including Hawaii, of the American Red Cross.

[1] He was invited by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Mary Quinn Sullivan, and Lillie P. Bliss to help establish the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

In 1939, on the eve of the opening of the museum building on 53d Street, Nelson A. Rockefeller, later the Governor of New York, succeeded Goodyear as MOMA's chief executive.

He also bequeathed many important works, including Giacomo Balla’s Dinamismo di un Cane al Guinzaglio (Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash), 1912; Salvador Dalí’s The Transparent Simulacrum of the Feigned Image, 1938; and Frida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait with Monkey, 1938.

Shortly before his death, the museum established the A. Conger Goodyear Fund for the acquisition of new artwork, greatly enhancing its ability to grow its collection in the years to come.

[19] Goodyear was also a director of the Buffalo Academy of Fine Arts,[20] an honorary governor of the New York Hospital,[21] and a donor to Dartmouth College.

[1] His home in Old Westbury, New York, the A. Conger Goodyear House (built in 1938 by Edward Durell Stone), is on the National Register of Historic Places.