biography
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| lived:
| (1847–1929)
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| biography:
| Brewer, born in Barmen, Prussia. He went to the USA in 1868, and after working in a Denver brewery, he founded Adolph Coors Brewing Co in Golden, CO (1873). He was president of the company after its incorporation (1914), steering it successfully through most of the Prohibition period. He left the firm to his sons, who developed it on a national scale into one of the most successful American breweries. |
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