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Adolph Coors (February 4, 1847 – June 5, 1929) was a brewer that started the Adolph Coors Company in Golden, Colorado in 1873. February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ...
1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Golden, Colorado Adolph Coors Company (NYSE: RKY) is a holding company controlled by the heirs of founder Adolph Coors. ...
Downtown Golden, Colorado Golden, Colorado lies at the mouth of Clear Creek at the edge of the foothills of the Front Range. ...
Adolph was the son of Joseph Coors and Helena Hein, and was born at Barmen in Rhenish Prussia on February 4, 1847. He was apprenticed at thirteen to the book and stationery store of Andrea & Company in nearby Ruhrort from November, 1860 until June, 1862. He was educated at Barmen and Dortmund, Westphalia, a larger town to which the Coors family moved to. His mother died on April 2, 1862. In July, Adolph was apprenticed for a three year period at a brewery owned by Henry Wenker in Dortmund, Prussia. Coors was charged a fee for his apprentiship, so he worked as a bookkeeper. His father died on November 24, 1862. Orphaned, Coors completed his apprenticeship and continued to work as a paid worker at the Wenker Brewery until May of 1867. Then he followed his trade at breweries in Kassel, Berlin, and Uelzen. Early in 1868, he emigrated to the United States. Coors sailed from Hamburg and then went to Chicago and arrived on May 30, 1868. he worked as a labor, and during the summer he worked as a brewer, in the fall and winter he worked with pick and shovel and as a fireman, probably of a steam engine in a plant or on a steam shovel. The following spring and summer he worked as an apprentice bricklayer and stone cutter. He became foreman of John Stenger's brewery on August 11, 1869, in Naperville, Illinois, about 35 miles west of Chicago. He resigned from Stenger's brewery on January 22, 1872, and arrived in Denver in April. He worked in Denver as a gardener for a month. On May 1, 1872 he purchased a partnership in the bottling firm of John Staderman and before the year ended bought and assumed control of the entire business. An advertisement in Corbett, Hoye & Company's Directory of the City of Denver for 1873 on page 242 showed Adolph Coors as a dealer in "bottled beer, ale, porter and cider, imported and domestic wines, and seltzer water." His place of business was located in the Tappan Block on Holladay (now Market) Street between E and F Streets (now 14th and 15th). The same directory shows that Coors lived on Curtis Street between IC and L (20th and 21st) Streets. February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...
Naperville is a city located in DuPage County, Illinois and Will County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 128,358; a special census in 2003 estimated the population at 135,858. ...
Death by suicide
He took his own life on June 5, 1929, at the Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach, Virginia when he jumped to his death from the hotel window. June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ...
1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Virginia Beach is an independent city located in the South Hampton Roads area in the Commonwealth of Virginia, on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. ...
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