biography
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Goodyear, Anson Conger
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1877–1964)
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| biography:
| Industrialist and art collector, born in Buffalo, New York, USA. He studied at Yale (1899 BA), joined the family lumber business in Buffalo, and became vice-president (1907) and then president (1911). He was president of the Great Southern Lumber Co, Bogalusa, LA (1920–38), served as vice-president of the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad (1907–10), and was president of the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad Co (1920–30). He also became chairman of the board of the Gaylord Container Corp (1937–52), later to merge with the Crown Zellerbach Corp. He was an avid collector of late 19th-c and early 20th-c American and European art, and, after he moved to New York City, he was president of the Museum of Modern Art (1929–39). After his death his collection was bequeathed to the Buffalo Museum of Fine Arts. |
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