Adolph Coors II

Adolph Coors II

Adolph Herman Joseph Coors, Jr. (January 12, 1884 – June 28, 1970) was the son of Adolph Coors and the second President of Coors Brewing Company. cite book |last=Baum |first=Dan |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty |year=2000 |publisher=HarperCollins |quote= | url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0756758114 |isbn=0756758114 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Citizen Coors |url=http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/23/bib/000423.rv080324.html |quote=Adolph Coors Jr., the son of the brewery's founder, cut ties with one branch of his grandchildren whose father, Adolph's son, was murdered. Another son, Bill, proceeded with plans to give a party the day he learned of his daughter's suicide. Joe, Bill's brother, sometimes called "the Daddy Warbucks of the Republican Party," supported Ronald Reagan, the Heritage Foundation and various conservative initiatives, like aid to the contras. |publisher=New York Times |date= |accessdate=2007-08-21 ] Coors was a graduate of Cornell University, where he was a member of the Sphinx Head Society. He became accomplished chemist who worked in prominent positions in the family's brewing and porcelain operations. He married Alice May Kistler (1885-1970) of Denver [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Mrs. Adolph Coors Jr. |url= |quote=Denver, November 11, 1970 (United Press International) Mrs. Adolph Coors Jr. died here last night of a heart attack. She was 85 years old. |publisher=New York Times |date=November 12, 1970, Thursday |accessdate=2007-08-21 ] on May 4, 1912, at the Kistler home by Rev. Van Arsdall. The couple had four children: Adolph Coors III (1915-1960) who was kidnapped and killed in 1960; William K. Coors (1916), Joseph Coors (1917-2003), and May Louise Coors (1923), who married Tooker. Coors had his own brush with kidnapping in 1934 when Paul Robert Lane, the former state Prohibition agent for Colorado, along with Clyde Culbertson, former investigator for the federal dry forces, along with two other men conspired to kidnap Adolph Jr. for a ransom of $50,000 where the person delivering the money was to proceed to three different checkpoints to ensure no officers were tailing him and then split the money four ways while Coors would be released somewhere around Colorado Springs. Denver police learned of the plot while working on an auto theft ring and Adolph Jr. volunteered to be kidnapped so the police could arrest the suspects. However, Lane was arrested on an auto theft charge and the conspiracy was foiled in advance. Adolph Coors Jr. died in 1970 at the age of 86 years.

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