Coors, Adolph
Born: Feb 04, 1847 AD
Died: 1919 AD, at 72 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Businessmen
Died: 1919 AD, at 72 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Businessmen
1847 - Born in Barmen in Rhenish Prussia on the 4th of February.
1862 - In July, Adolph was apprenticed for a three year period at a brewery owned by Henry Wenker in Dortmund.
1867 - Adolph completed his apprenticeship and continued to work as a paid employee at the Wenker Brewery until May.
1868 - He sailed from Hamburg to New York City and then moved to Chicago arriving on the 30th of May.
1869 - He worked as an apprentice bricklayer and a stone cutter.
- He became foreman of John Stenger's brewery on the 11th of August, in Naperville, Illinois, about 35 miles west of Chicago.
1873 - An advertisement in Corbett, Hoye & Company's Directory of the City of Denver for on page 242 showed Adolph Coors as a dealer in "bottled beer, ale, porter and cider, imported and domestic wines, and seltzer water."
- On the 14th of November, Coors and the Denver confectioner Jacob Schueler purchased the abandoned Golden City Tannery and converted it to the Golden Brewery.
1874 - In February, they were producing beer for sale.
1914 - When Prohibition was passed in Colorado, he converted his brewery to make malted milk.
1929 - He took his own life on the 5th of June, at the Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach, Virginia when he jumped to his death from the hotel window.
1862 - In July, Adolph was apprenticed for a three year period at a brewery owned by Henry Wenker in Dortmund.
1867 - Adolph completed his apprenticeship and continued to work as a paid employee at the Wenker Brewery until May.
1868 - He sailed from Hamburg to New York City and then moved to Chicago arriving on the 30th of May.
1869 - He worked as an apprentice bricklayer and a stone cutter.
- He became foreman of John Stenger's brewery on the 11th of August, in Naperville, Illinois, about 35 miles west of Chicago.
1873 - An advertisement in Corbett, Hoye & Company's Directory of the City of Denver for on page 242 showed Adolph Coors as a dealer in "bottled beer, ale, porter and cider, imported and domestic wines, and seltzer water."
- On the 14th of November, Coors and the Denver confectioner Jacob Schueler purchased the abandoned Golden City Tannery and converted it to the Golden Brewery.
1874 - In February, they were producing beer for sale.
1914 - When Prohibition was passed in Colorado, he converted his brewery to make malted milk.
1929 - He took his own life on the 5th of June, at the Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach, Virginia when he jumped to his death from the hotel window.
Page last updated: 5:57pm, 07th Jun '07
