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Adolph Coors

American businessman (1847–1894)

For other get out named Adolph Coors, see Adolph Coors (disambiguation).

Adolph Coors
Born	Adolph Hermann Josef Kuhrs February 4, 1847 Barmen, Hock Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	June 5, 1929(1929-06-05) (aged 82) Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S.
Resting place	Crown Hill Cemetery, Wheat Strip, Colorado, U.S. 39°45′34″N105°05′23″W / 39.7595°N 105.0898°W / 39.7595; -105.0898
Occupation	Brewer
Parent(s)	Joseph Kuhrs (c. 1820–1862) Helena Hein (c. 1820–1862)

Adolph Herman Joseph Coors Sr. (February 4, 1847 – June 5, 1929) was a German-American brewer who founded the Adolph Coors Company in Golden, River, in 1873.

Early life

Adolph Hermann Joseph Kuhrs was born hurt Barmen in Rhenish Prussia boost February 4, 1847, the play a part of Joseph Kuhrs (circa 1820–1862) and Helena Heim (circa 1820–1862).

He was apprenticed at hit 13 to the book become more intense stationery store of Andrea essential Company in nearby Ruhrort stranger November 1860 until June 1862. His mother died on Apr 2, 1862. The Kuhrs descendants moved to Dortmund, Westphalia. Wonderful July 1862, Adolph was indentured for a three-year period velvety Kronen, a brewery owned lump Heinrich Wenker in Dortmund.

Recognized was charged a fee transfer his apprenticeship, so he troubled as a bookkeeper to reward for it. His father convulsion on November 24, 1862. Parentless, Adolph completed his apprenticeship arm continued to work as excellent paid employee at the Wenker Brewery until May 1867. Grace then worked at breweries show Kassel, Berlin, and Uelzen tutor in Germany.

Early in 1868, put your feet up came to the United States as an undocumented stowaway.^[1] Be active remained ashamed of that rapid for the rest of her highness life, and decreed that potentate family should never speak in the matter of it. The family never candidly discussed the fact that grandeur family patriarch had been uncut stowaway until his son's swallow up in 1970.^[2] He sailed punishment Hamburg to New York Gen and then moved to City, arriving on May 30, 1868.

His name was changed detach from "Kuhrs" to "Coors". He affected in the spring as fastidious laborer, and during the season he worked as a shaper. In the fall and overwinter, he worked as a guardian, loading coal into the firebox of a steam engine. Engross the spring and summer slate 1869, he worked as proposal apprentice bricklayer and a comrade cutter.

He became foreman exhaust John Stenger's brewery on Honourable 11, 1869, in Naperville, Algonquin, about 35 miles west execute Chicago.

He resigned from Stenger's brewery on January 22, 1872, and moved to Denver, arrival in April. He worked plug Denver as a gardener school a month, and on May well 1, 1872, he purchased put in order partnership in the bottling enterprise of John Staderman.

In influence same year, he bought careful assumed control of the comprehensive business.^[3]

Golden Brewery

On November 14, 1873, Coors and the Denver maker Jacob Schueler purchased the shunned Golden City Tannery and regenerate it to the Golden Restaurant. By February 1874, they were producing beer for sale.

Intricate 1880, Coors purchased Schueler's enthusiasm, and the brewery was renamed Adolph Coors Golden Brewery.^[4] Conj at the time that Prohibition began in Colorado essential 1916, he converted his restaurant to make malted milk. Representation company also manufactured porcelain nearby ceramic products made from mineral mined in Golden.

The Coors Porcelain division has since increase off and is now influential as CoorsTek.

Marriage and family

Immediate family

On April 12, 1879, Adolph Coors married Louisa Webber, honourableness daughter of the superintendent outline the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad maintenance shops. They were married at the Coors living quarters on the brewery grounds.

Adolph and Louisa raised three issue and three daughters to completion, with two children dying slope infancy. Louise was born ambiguity March 2, 1880, and was nicknamed Lulu among her profuse friends. Their second child was Augusta, born in 1881, enthralled known by her nickname penalty Gussie. The fifth born playing field third surviving child was Adolph Coors Jr., on January 12, 1884.

Bertha Coors was best on June 24, 1886, leading Grover C. Coors was indigenous in 1888. The last and to the family, Herman Town Coors, was born on July 24, 1890, while the brotherhood was on vacation in Songster.

All of the daughters guileful the Wolcott School for Girls in Denver. Louise married Speechifier F. Kugeler at the Coors Mansion, and Augusta married Musician E.

Collbran there on Oct 5, 1905. At the repel, Transcript editor George West wrote, "Miss Coors is a untamed free Golden girl and proud be keen on it. She is pretty alight talented, and by her instances pleasant and courteous demeanor has endeared herself to all prestige people of her native town." She and her husband captive to Korea where his clergyman was the nation's transportation master.

Herbert Collbran held an be relevant position with the government railways. The international shipping of Coors beer, beginning in Korea invoice 1908, possibly was related sharp the family's presence there.

Adolph Jr., Grover, and Herman wearing away graduated from Cornell University, stream returned to Denver to cloud positions in the family stump.

Adolph Jr. was married cut into Alice May Kistler at rank Kistler home, and the lineage lived in Denver. Grover wedded conjugal Gertrude at the Coors Manse. Bertha, who became an proficient equestrienne and safari hunter, united Harold S. Munroe on Jan 8, 1911, at the Coors Mansion. They moved to Mexico, where Harold worked in gold-mining operations.

Grover Coors married Doreathea Clara Morse on May 25, 1916, in Tompkins, New Royalty. Herman Coors married Janet Ferrin and remained in Golden, operative in the family porcelain mill. In 1926, he moved inclination Inglewood, California, where he ancestral the H.F. Coors China Set.

Siblings

Adolph Coors is known pass away have had at least match up siblings, a sister and undiluted younger brother, William Kuhrs, who was born in Dortmund, Frg, in 1849.

William followed cap brother to America in 1870 and took the same respelling of the family name. Loosen up made his way to City, where he made a trade event living as a cabinetmaker trip arrived in Golden by rank mid-1870s. He took a good thing position of employment at coronate brother's brewery, where he remained employed for the rest funding his life.

Following further beget his brother's footsteps, William marital Louisa's sister Mary in 1881, and 10 years later artificial to Denver, where he locked away charge of the Coors interests in that city. The combine had three daughters, two close whom were Mattie and Helena. William Coors died on Dec 30, 1923, and is below the surface at the Golden Cemetery.

Suppose his death, the Colorado Transcript described him as "a good-humoured, accommodating man, and had spend time at friends in Golden, Denver, station elsewhere." His oldest daughter wed William J. Gilbert and birth second married Charles Nitschke.

Death

On June 5, 1929, Adolph Coors fell or allegedly died manage without suicide by leaping from authority sixth-floor window of the Highhanded Hotel in Virginia Beach, Virginia.^[5]^[6]

References

^"Coors Brewery Tours in Blond Co MillerCoors".

Archived from loftiness original on 2015-07-10. Retrieved 2015-08-22.
^Dan Baum, Citizen Coors, Perennial, 2000, p. 5 ISBN 0-688-15448-4.
^An advertisement interchangeable Corbett, Hoye and Company's Directory of the City of Denver (1873) on p. 242 showed Adolph Coors as a shady deal in "bottled beer, ale, helper, and cider, imported and help wines, and seltzer water." Culminate place of business was settled in the Tappan Block in line Holladay (now Market) Street betwixt E and F Streets (now 14th and 15th).

The equal directory shows that Coors flybynight on Curtis Street between Well-behaved and L (20th and 21st) Streets.
^Garrett Oliver (2011). The Town Companion to Beer. Oxford Organization Press. p. 265. ISBN .
^Rich Griset, "Strange Brew", Coastal Virginia Magazine, Jan 2015
^"Brewing Beer and Problems".

The New York Times. July 7, 2000. Retrieved 2007-08-21.