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Memorial and Family History of Erie County, New York
Vol. I, Biographical and Genealogical
The Genealogical Publishing Co., Buffalo; 1906-8

   [97-98]

        THE GOODYEAR FAMILY. The ancient home of the English GOODYEARS was
     the Parish of Monken Hadley, in the County of Middlesex. The American
     GOODYEARS trace their lineage to STEPHEN GOODYEAR, Governor of New
     Haven Colony from 1643 to 1658, who was one of the merchants who, on
     June 26, 1637, came from London to this country with the REV. JOHN
     DAVENPORT in the ship Hector. In 1638 most of these immigrants made
     their way to the site of New Haven, Conn. GOV. STEPHEN GOODYEAR of the
     New Haven Colony stood high among the English Colonial governors of
     his time. His judgment determined the location of the colony and the
     plan of the town of New Haven. He took a leading part in the develop-
     ment of the infant state and is, historically, the most conspicuous
     personage in its early annals. Long before Yale College was founded he
     was one of the first to advocate such an institution.  JOHN GOODYEAR,
     son of GOVERNOR STEPHEN GOODYEAR, was a lieutenant in the Colonial
     militia. He had a son, ANDREW, who married JANE GILBERT, daughter of
     DEPUTY GOVERNOR MATTHEW GILBERT. Their son, TITUS, had a son, JOHN
     GOODYEAR, who removed to Geneva, N.Y., and died in Barre, Orleans
     County in 1826. BRADLEY GOODYEAR, son of JOHN GOODYEAR, was born in
     Sempronius, N.Y., December 6, 1816. He studied medicine with DR. MILES
     GOODYEAR, practiced in Cortland, N.Y., and later in Western New York,
     and spent the last years of his life in Buffalo, where he died May 16,
     1889. November 26, 1845, DR. GOODYEAR married ESTHER P. KINNE, daugh-
     ter of MOSES and POLLY (FORBES) KINNE, and granddaughter of IRA and
     MIRIAM (GOODELL) KINNE of Connecticut, and of ALEXANDER FORBES, a
     native of Scotland. The children of DR. GOODYEAR were: CHARLES W.
     GOODYEAR and FRANK H. GOODYEAR.
        DR. GOODYEAR was, to a notable degree identified with the practice
     and progress of the medical profession in Western New York, being a
     well-read, experienced and successful medical practitioner.
        The wife of DR. GOODYEAR was womanly, helpful and devoted — an
     ideal wife and mother. Possessed of a remarkable amount of energy and
     vitality, she long survived her husband, her death occurring in 1907.

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