Anson Goodyear

Anson Goodyear
Colonel Goodyear, executive officer of the Camp Taylor, Kentucky training school for artillery officers during World War I.
Born	Anson Conger Goodyear June 20, 1877 Buffalo, New York
Died	April 24, 1964(1964-04-24) (aged 86) Old Westbury, New York
Resting place	Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo
Education	Nichols School
Alma mater	Yale University
Known for	First president of Museum of Modern Art
Spouse(s)	Mary Martha Forman (m. 1904; div.) Zaidee C. Bliss (m. 1950; his death 1964)
Children	4
Parent(s)	Charles W. Goodyear Ella Portia Conger Goodyear
Relatives	George V. Forman (father-in-law)

Anson Conger Goodyear (June 20, 1877 – April 24, 1964) was an American manufacturer, businessman, author, and philanthropist and member of the Goodyear family. He is best known as a founder and first president of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Goodyear was born in Buffalo, New York on June 20, 1877. Conger was the son of Charles W. Goodyear (1846-1911) and Ella Portia Conger (1863-1940), members of the prominent Western New York Goodyear family who resided at the 888 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo.

He was educated at the Nichols School in Buffalo and graduated from Yale University in 1899. While at Yale, he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and the Wolf's Head Society and began collecting limited and first editions of books. He expanded the collection later, obtaining most of the letters of William Makepeace Thackeray to Jane Octavia Brookfield.

Goodyear was president of the Great Southern Lumber Company in Bogalusa, Louisiana (1920–38); served as vice-president of the Marine National Bank and vice-president of the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad (1907–10); and was president of the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad Company (1920–30). He served as chairman of the board of directors of Gaylord Container Corporation, director of Paramount Pictures, director of the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and as an executive or director of several other corporations.