Bradley Goodyear

Major Bradley Goodyear (October 18, 1885 – February 6, 1959) was an American lawyer, soldier, and member of the Goodyear family of New York.

Early life

Goodyear was born on October 18, 1885, in Buffalo, New York. His eldest brother Anson Goodyear was a prominent art collector. His sister, Esther Permelia Goodyear, married Arnold Brooks Watson. Another brother was Charles Waterhouse Goodyear II (who married Grace Rumsey, sister of Charles Cary Rumsey, and after their divorce, Marion Spaulding).

The family lived at 888 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, which was built in 1903 for the Goodyears by architect E.B. Green of Green & Wicks. His father was a close friend of President Grover Cleveland. He attended the Nichols School and graduated from the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He received a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1907 and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1910 where he served on the editorial board of the Harvard Law Review.

Military service During the War, Goodyear went overseas with the 106th Field Artillery, with whom he had earlier served in the Mexican Border campaign. During the War, he fought in France during the Battle of Verdun and by the Wars end, had advanced to the rank of Major and was the commanding officer of his regiment. John Goodyear (1912–1964), a U.S. career diplomat in Turkey who married Julia Halls Owsley, a daughter of John Ebsworth Owsley, in 1937. Frances "Fanny" Goodyear (1914–1975), who married Prince Ludwig "Louis" Della Torre e Tasso, son of Prince Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino in 1939. They divorced in 1948 and she married Daniel Barton Streeter, son of Daniel Willard Streeter, in 1949. Thomas Goodyear (1917–1992), a founder of the Glimmerglass Opera.

Goodyear spent most of his last three decades at his country home in Springfield Center near Cooperstown, New York, known as Cary Mede, which they bought in 1920. He was buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo. His widow died in 1983.