George Goodyear
George Goodyear (December 9, 1801-November 18, 1884) was an American clergyman.
Goodyear, son of Sinaeon and Hannah (Beardsley) Goodyear, was born in Hamden, Conn., December 9, 1801.
Goodyear graduated from Yale College in 1824. After graduation he took a three years' course in the Yale Divinity School, and was ordained as an evangelist at New Haven, July 22, 1828. After brief engagements in Gaines, New York (where he married Elizabeth, daughter of Judge Robert Anderson, May 3, 1880), and in East Windsor, Conn, he was installed pastor of the Congregational church in Ashburnham, Mass., October 10, 1832. He remained there until October 10, 1841. Then followed a brief pastorate in Rensselaerville, N. Y., which was interrupted by the illness of his wife, who died February 28, 1844. He was next acting pastor for three or four years in Truro, on Cape Cod, and on December 19, 1849, was installed in South Royalston, Mass , where he remained until May 16,1854.
His last and longest pastorate was in Temple, N. H., from April 28, 1855, to October 25, 1865; his resignation was occasioned by attacks of hemorrhage, which prevented his undertaking active duty in the ministry again. He was able, however, during this last period of his life to represent the town of Temple in two sessions of the New Hampshire State Legislature.. He died in Temple, of consumption, November 18, 1884, at the age of 83.
He married, December 18, 1844, Roxana, daughter of Deacon L. S. Rand, of Townshend, Vt., who survived him, along with three children by his first marriage.
This article incorporates public domain material from the 1885 Yale Obituary Record.