Haven, Connecticut in 1800. Charles was
             the oldest child in his family and had
             four brothers and a sister. He married
             Clarissa Beecher in 1824. The y had 6
             children, Ellen ,Cynthia, Sarah, a un-
             named child, Charles Jr. ,and William .
             son William died at 3 Yr. Most of his life
             with his first wife and children were in
             poverty . He remarried after the death of
             his first wife to Fanny Wardeell of
             London England. Charles died on July
             1, 1860 himself a poor man ,the way he
             Charles had an average education .He
             went to high school but not college. He
             did do an apprenticeship in New York in
             a hardware store. Charles was very
             influenced in his early childhood by his
             fathers interest in inventing things. His
             father experimented with new types of
             pitchforks, etc. Charles did not have
             In 1821, he worked with his father
             in a hardware business. This business
             failed in 1830 The y tried to expand to
             quickly causing them to go bankrupt.
             rubber and inventing new things. India
             rubber was not used in industry because
             of the adhesives of the surface. It was too
             sticky when hot and too brittle when
             cold. Goodyear spent most of his life in
             limited usefulness to industry. Rubber
             products melted in hot weather, froze
             and cracked in cold, and adhered to
             everything. One day, one of Good years
             early experiments was that he discovered
             workable. But his big breakthrough was
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