The Seiberling Rubber Company was an American tire manufacturer for motor vehicles. In 1898 Frank A. Seiberling acquired an old strawboard factory in Akron, Ohio and founded the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (naming it after Charles Goodyear). He served as the company´s president for 15 years when, in 1921 the company was refinanced and reorganized. Frank Seiberling and his brother Charles resigned from the company and founded a rubber and tire company bearing his name.