Frank Seiberling
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Franklin Augustus Seiberling, also known as F.A. Seiberling, was an American innovator and entrepreneur best known for founding the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in 1898 and the Seiberling Rubber Com
Seiberling taken sometime before 1900
Akron's Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, in which Seiberling was influential
Charles Goodyear
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Charles Goodyear was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 1
Frank Seiberling
…partnership with his brother C.W. Seiberling, he decided to open a rubber company, picked a name, and was selling stock. The company would be named for Charles Goodyear, the discoverer of vulcanization, who had died penniless almost forty years before. While Seiberling and his brother Charles were the co-founders of…
Goodyear's grave in New Haven, Connecticut