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B. F. Goodrich Co.  

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  • Benjamin Franklin Goodrich (1841–1888) established the B. F. Goodrich Company in Akron, Ohio, in 1870. He accepted an offer from the town to open a rubber and tire manufacturer after he had purchased the Hudson River Rubber Company the previous year with the returns from his real estate investments. [Source: Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime; B. F. Goodrich Co.]

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