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.

[3] 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.

(October 15, 1846 – April 16, 1911) was an American lawyer, businessman, lumberman, and member of the prominent Goodyear family of New York.

In the late 19th century, his brother and he were highly successful in harvesting timber from formerly isolated areas of Pennsylvania and New York.

[12] Frank Henry Goodyear Jr. had business interests in lumber and railroads, as well as the Goodyear-Wende Oil Company.

He was Vice-President of the Great Southern Lumber Company; Vice-President of the New Orleans Great Northern Railway; and, a director of the Gulf Mobile & Northern Railroad; Marine Trust; and, of the Bogalusa Paper Company.

He initially lived between the two homes he inherited from his mother: 762 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo and the Goodyear Cottage on Jekyll Island.

After Frank Jr. died in 1930, his widow Dorothy Knox Goodyear later married Edmund Pendleton Rogers (1882–1966) in 1931.