Adolph Herman Joseph Coors Jr. (January 12, 1884 – June 28, 1970) was an American businessman. He was the son of Louisa (Webber) and brewer Adolph Coors , and the second President of Coors Brewing Company .
5-584: The Adolph Coors Foundation was founded in 1975 with funds from the Adolph Coors Jr. Trust. Adolph Coors II was the son of the founder of the Coors Brewing Company in Golden, Colorado . The foundation has awarded $ 135.3 million USD since 1975. It focuses its efforts generally within the state of Colorado , but has also been used to fund national entities such as The Heritage Foundation . In 1993,
10-450: 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 (1916–2018), Joseph Coors (1917–2003), and May Louise Coors (1923–2008). Coors had his own brush with kidnapping in 1934. Paul Robert Lane, the former state Prohibition agent for Colorado, and Clyde Culbertson, former investigator for
15-598: The United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Adolph Coors II Coors was a graduate of Cornell University , where he was a member of the Sphinx Head Society and the Kappa Alpha Society . He became an accomplished chemist who worked in prominent positions in the family's brewing and porcelain operations. He married Alice May Kistler (1885–1970) of Denver on May 4, 1912, at
20-424: The federal dry forces, along with two other men conspired to kidnap Adolph Jr. for a ransom of $ 50,000. The person delivering the money was to proceed to three different checkpoints to ensure no officers were tailing him and then split the money; 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
25-476: The foundation provided the endowment funds for the creation of the Castle Rock Foundation , which awards grants to causes throughout the United States. In part, the organization states that "All Americans are educated, particularly in the wisdom of the free enterprise system, traditional Judeo-Christian values and the rule of law." This article about a philanthropic or charitable organization in
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