A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z, WIKITREE HOME | ABOUT | G2G FORUM | HELP | SEARCH. Geni requires JavaScript! But oil prices began tanking last fall, dragging that division down 30% so far in 2015. Together, with Coors Porcelain Company, a task force was created to make the dream a reality and in 1959, Coors introduced the first recyclable, sterile filled can on the market and revolutionized the entire beverage industry. Herman Frederick Coors managed the company in the early days. He resides in Colorado with his wife of over 51 years, BJ. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Don C Coors. The Coors family timed its go-private acquisition almost perfectly, buying back the company just five months after the stock market hit bottom in October 2002. Coors engineers Vlad Wolkodoff[27] and Bob Weaver invented fully dense, glass-free 99.5+% Al2O3 ceramics in 1964, useful for many applications where porcelain is deficient. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. [75], Robert L. Johnson founded Alumina Ceramics, Inc. (ACI) in Benton, AR, in 1971 on Dale Ave. Johnson had been a ceramic engineer and project director at the Alumina Research Division of Reynolds Metals Co. in nearby Bauxite, AR. Golden Aluminum was sold to Alcoa in 1999,[52] and is now an independent remelter and rolling mill in Fort Lupton, CO. Graphic Pkg., previously Coors Packaging Co. 197488, merged with Riverwood International Corp. in 2003[53] and moved its headquarters to suburban Atlanta,[54] but kept a 250-employee plant in Golden until 2010 that supplied paperboard packaging for Coors beer. CCEL, with 51 employees managed by Ken Henderson, received the prestigious Queen's Award for Export Achievement in 1992, for its record exports of lasered ceramic substrates. For years Bill participated in Barley Field Days events celebrating growers because he felt strongly that his relationship with the growers was special. 1100 Washington Ave Golden, CO JOSEPH COORS OBITUARY Joseph Coors, Jr. of Golden, CO died after complications from a stroke. Friend-shoring refers to sourcing from geopolitical allies, including countries like Japan and Korea. Adolph Jr., Grover, and Herman all graduated from Cornell University, and returned to Denver to take positions in the family operations. Francis "Frank" Maginnis (1925-2018) left the University of Oklahoma Physics Dept. "Woodie" Howe (1942-2006) managing both operations and reporting to John Jenkins, VP and GM of Coors Ceramics Structural Division. In 2019, CoorsTek invested $26M and added 50,000ft2 to the 180,000ft2, 200-employee Arkansas operation, in anticipation of growth in its aerospace and defense markets. As a young man, Adolph's great-grandson John always planned to someday work at the brewery. CoorsTek Advanced Ceramics Hamilton ULC, foundry filters, formerly Hamilton Pottery Co. Oguno, Yamagata; Hatano, Kanagawa; and Kariya, Aichi, Japan. Johann Heinrich Coors 1837 - 1910. This story appears in the November 22, 2015 issue of Forbes. Ground was broken for the new 95,000 sq. Mary Ann Coors (born Atwood), 1854 - 1934. [41] At the time, porcelain was a small part of the 12-plant, 2200-employee company's output. Coors Porcelain opened its first foreign subsidiary, Coors Ceramics U.K. Ltd. (CCUK), in the Southfield Industrial Estate in Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland, in 1981. After his father was murdered, Adolph spent years searching for meaning in life, which he eventually found in a relationship with Jesus Christ. [33] Coors opened its first foreign factory in Glenrothes, Scotland, in 1981. Now owned entirely by the Coors family, CoorsTek is worth an estimated $2.5 billion, about $200 million more than the family's 16% stake in the brewery. Adolph Jr. was married to Alice May Kistler at the Kistler home, and the family lived in Denver. Early in 1868, he immigrated to the United States. in Engineering Physics, Co-CEO Michael Coors holds a B.Sc. [3], [4] The Glass Works was leased to Austrian-born John J. Herold (1871-1923) in 1910, who incorporated the Herold China and Pottery Company on the site at 600 Ninth St in Golden. "If you're talking about engineered ceramics, I don't think there is anybody who can do the breadth of stuff we can do.". Bertha Coors was born on June 24, 1886, and Grover C. Coors was born in 1888. After America started legally drinking again in 1933, ceramics became an afterthought. As more people work in hybrid office environments, airline demand patterns are changing. A Porcelain warehouse at the corner of Ninth St. and Washington Ave. in Golden was selected to house the pilot plant for the aluminum can line. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Coors surname lived. Browse profiles of historical people with the Coors last name, This page needs Javascript enabled in order to work properly. After World War I, Coors Porcelain made fine china and cookware bearing the trademarks Rosebud, Glencoe Thermo-Porcelain, Coorado, Mello-Tone and others. "Citizen Coors" is an extraordinarily detailed account of a remarkably insular family whose company struggled through labor problems, consumer boycotts and a nearly disastrous loyalty to. Of the 200 clans on the 2015 FORBES list of America's Richest Families, only 8 trace their fortunes further back than Coors. You may opt-out by. [135], [136] Coors Biomedical was also developing synthetic bone-grafting technologies. It's an amazingly fascinating company.". The company's savior may have been its product, the reader suspects. "Bob" Mornin (1924-1992), a ceramic engineer at Coors Porcelain since 1954,[18] was appointed manager of can production in 1963, and led it to profitability. Finally, Baum may not have given enough credit to the insight Peter Coors had in setting in motion the company's recovery. His mother died on April 2, 1862. Following further in his brother's footsteps, William married Louisa's sister Mary in 1881, and ten years later moved to Denver where he had charge of the Coors interests in that city. [19] Coors Brewing Company reorganized its 340-employee can, end and tab operations into a joint venture with the Ball Corporation in 2002, known as Rocky Mountain Metal Container LLC. Friend-Shoring Means You Have To Worry About The Health Of Your Friends, The Sixers Options At Center Against The Celtics Until Joel Embiid Returns, With Induction Weekend Coming, Baseball Hall Of Fames Official Tour Operator Opens Doors For Travelers, How Hybrid Work Is Changing Airline Industry Seasonality, TikTok Parent ByteDances Sensitive Words Tool Monitors Discussion Of China, Trump, Uyghurs, Taking Stock Of The U.S.-South Korea Summit. [6] Adolph Coors II (1884-1970) was the first vice-president (VP) and general manager (GM). In 1926 he moved to Inglewood, California where he set up his own porcelain plant, the H.F. Coors Company. [4]:39 CSM evaluated Fireproof China for industrial applications in 1914, and found it suitable. In 2000, when brother Joe retired, John stepped in to lead the ceramics company, which changed its name to CoorsTek. Subscribe. Engineered ceramics are more expensive than either material, but they almost never wear out, and most don't rust at all. All funds raised will be distributed per the direction of his three surviving children to causes that were meaningful to Bill during his lifetime. That was until a series of trials and tragedies left him insecure and unfulfilled. [142], Coors built a $12M, 28003700 m2 factory in Oak Ridge, TN, in early 1990, known as Coors Technical Ceramics Company (CTCC). [3] Herman retired from Coors China in 1946, and was succeeded by his son Robert M. Coors (1920-2004). ByteDance appears to be using word lists to detect or suppress content about everything from TikTok rival YouTube to marginalized Uyghurs to 2024 presidential candidate Donald Trump. Sales grew over the next eight years at a rate of 70-80% per year. Senior editor at Forbes, covering Donald Trump's business. Instead, the Coors family won the bid and took out a bank loan to buy the 69% that they did not already own for $191 million--valuing the company at $278 million, two-thirds more than Wall Street thought it was worth. CoorsTek, Inc. is a privately owned manufacturer of technical ceramics for aerospace, automotive, chemical, electronics, medical, metallurgical, oil and gas, semiconductor and many other industries. The international shipping of Coors beer, beginning in Korea in 1908, possibly was related to the family's presence there. The couple had three daughters, two of whom were Mattie and Helena. The Coors Porcelain division has since split off and is now known as CoorsTek. Get started Geni World Family Tree. We believe in being friends. The company gradually diversified its lines of technical ceramics before and especially after World War II. John Coors earned his B.Sc. Formerly RI Ceramic Co. of Norman, OK, and HB Co. Alumina pump components. Coors family $4B 2015 America's Richest Families Net Worth as of 7/1/15 Photo by Bettmann/CORBIS About Coors family One of America's great beer families, the Coors clan still owns more. Alice married Adolph, Herman Joseph Coors. The biggest reason for CoorsTek's success: its swift response to changing markets. in Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering, from Mines. Don C Coors was born on July 10, 1924. But by 1910 prohibitionists were threatening to shut down the party. Continuing to think that a product should stand on its own without marketing help, Coors brought in outside marketing executives only when it realized it was losing too many drinkers to Miller Brewing Co. and Anheuser-Busch. After President Obama announced the end of the Iraq war in December 2011, CoorsTek's oil-and-gas business grew 20% a year from 2012 to 2014. Temperature-regulating textiles. Mary Brooke Coors Birth 26 Jan 1941 - Jefferson County, Colorado, USA Death 25 October 1968 - Glenview (Cook County), Cook County, Illinois, USA Mother Mary Urquhart Grant Father Adolph Herman Joseph Coors Quick access Family tree New search Mary Brooke Coors family tree Family tree Explore more family trees Parents Adolph Herman Joseph Coors In 1880 there were 24 Coors families living in Ohio. The Muse de Grenoble, right in the heart of the city, has an astonishing collection of 900 works of fine . This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Janet H. Coors (1912-1994), widow of Herman Coors, endowed the Colorado Center for Advanced Ceramics (CCAC) at the Colorado School of Mines in 1988 with $2 million, and established the H.F. Coors Distinguished Professor of Ceramic Engineering chair. In 1992 his three older brothers, father and uncle, all of whom were top executives, decided to spin off nonbrewery assets, including the ceramics business, an aluminum mill and a packaging outfit, into a separate company called ACX Technologies. [11] Germany became competitive once again in 1926, and put downward pressure on Coors' chemical porcelain business. The award recognized his historic role in providing critical insulators to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Manhattan Engineer District (also known as the Manhattan Project) during World War II. In July 1862, Adolph was apprenticed for a three-year period at a brewery owned by Henry Wenker in Dortmund. [56], [57], In an effort to broaden its business beyond mostly structural and insulating ceramics, Coors Ceramics made several acquisitions in the late 1990s, especially of suppliers to the semiconductor industry. At 17 he got his first job there as a quality control technician, stayed in Golden to study chemical engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, then went to the University of Texas at Austin for a master's degree in biochemistry before spending four years getting his doctorate in brewing science from the Technical University of Munich in 1986. Edit your search or learn more Adolph Herman Joseph Coors III Adolph Herman Joseph Coors III from tree Pittman Jr. Family Tree Spouse Mary Urquhart Grant (1915- xxxx) Gerda Clara Coors 09 Mar 1910 Koetaradja, Soerabaja, Java, Nederlands-Indi. They pass liquor stores stocked with racks of Coors; a statue of the town's original brewer, Adolph Coors; and a series of signs leading to the largest beer factory in the world. Almost immediately customers like Lam Research and Applied Materials, which make equipment used in the semiconductor manufacturing process, came back asking for more ceramics. FORBES estimates that its cash flow will reach $340 million in 2015. Between 1959 and 2004, in the United States, Coors life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1998, and highest in 1989. The assets included a 200-ft-long gas-fired tunnel kiln purchased in 1988 that was transported in 19 sections. Bertha Coors was born on June 24, 1886, and Grover C. Coors was born in 1888. [26] High-alumina (85 to 99.9% Al2O3) ceramics replaced porcelain (mixed-oxide ceramics, e.g., mullite) in many thermomechanical, electrical and chemical applications. Formerly C5 Medical Werks, now the Bioceramics part of CoorsTek Medical LLC. The Coors family tree reads like a who's who of conservative philanthropynearly all the men in the family work for the company, and nearly all share the same right-wing ideology. In 1949, Bill and his brother Joe purchased land in the San Luis Valley in Colorado to start their experimental barley farm and launched the quest to develop the finest brewing barley in the world and the close association with barley growers themselves. This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can only be viewed by Ancestry members to whom they have granted . See below for the official proclamation issued and signed by Colorado Governor John W . Upon his death, the Colorado Transcript described him as "a genial, accommodating man, and had many friends in Golden, Denver, and elsewhere." Constantly on the lookout for acquisition targets, the company typically makes all-cash offers, closing transactions faster than its competitors and getting lower prices. Portrait taken from his United States passport application: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1174/images/USM1490_289-0136 The Coors family's most critical investment, however, is in its fifth generation. [10] Chemist Harold W. Ryland (1881-1966) was hired in 1923, and worked his way up to GM and VP of Porcelain and mayor of Golden 1939-45 before his 1957 retirement. [9], [20] Coors Ceramics began developing hot-pressed SiC-whisker-reinforced Al2O3 ceramic tooling for beverage can machinery in the 1990s.[21]. Dorothea Magdalena Wilhelmine Coors family tree Family tree Explore more family trees. The family insists it still has high expectations for the performance of the fund, but if the younger investors don't make big gains on the capital, at least the family will get a different kind of return--another generation of heirs who, after their experiences running small companies, should be capable of leading businesses as big as CoorsTek and the brewery. [36] The key subsidiaries of ACX were Coors Ceramics Co.; Graphic Packaging International Inc., with Joe Jr.'s younger brother J.H. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. At the time, Transcript editor George West wrote, "Miss Coors is a native Golden girl and proud of it. The company was late to the party with one, as Miller and Anheuser-Busch were watching sales for their own brands skyrocket. He grew up in a bungalow tucked behind the Adolph Coors Brewery with his two brothers, Adolph III and Joseph, and his sister May. In 1974, at the age of 58, Bill Coors reached the summit of Mt. Coors, "Apparatus for Forming Spark-Plug Insulators," US Patent No. "You could wander around here and look at plants and try to figure this stuff out for years, and you'd still be bewildered. He was apprenticed at age 13 to the book and stationery store of Andrea and Company in nearby Ruhrort from November 1860 until June 1862. Starling, J.E. He became foreman of John Stenger's brewery on August 11, 1869, in Naperville, Illinois, about 35 miles west of Chicago. CoorsTek Specialty Chemicals; formerly Boulder Ionics. [49] VP Doug Coors holds a B.Sc. On June 5, 1929, Adolph Coors fell or allegedly committed suicide by leaping from the sixth-floor window of the Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach, Virginia. "CoorsTek to Acquire Saint-Gobain Advanced Ceramics,", F. Anderson, C. Claypool, et al., "Ceramic Improvements for Market-Driven Quality,", "Grinding Media: Higher Density and Smaller Size,", "Coors Establishes Micro Extrusion Operation,", "Coors Ceramics Plans Oak Ridge Location,", "Coors Division Markets Grinding Wheels,", "Ceramicon Designs Breaks Ground for Office/Manufacturing Facility,", "Coors Porcelain Company: Continuing Expansion into Consumer Products,", "Coors Porcelain Opens Subsidiary in Scotland,", "Coors Enters Microprocessor Ceramic Package Market,", D.W. Richerson, "Materials Science and Engineering: A Rewarding Career,", "Elkem Metals Purchases Position in Ceramatec,", M. Brooks, "Innovate and CoorsTek Introduce EmiSense Technologies, LLC,", D. Clark, et al., "Single-step hydrogen production from NH, L.B. The most Coors families were found in USA in 1920. [34] Two more foreign subsidiaries were acquired in the early 1980s, an electronic ceramics plant in Singapore and a paper-tooling plant in Brazil. "Doug" Coors (son of Joe Jr.) as manager of R&D and later president. Products included artificial joints, components for medical machines and implantable screws, rods and plates. Yoon Suk-yeols visit to Washington has placed differences between the U.S. and South Korean governments front-and-center. On December 2, 2016, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management, presented Bill with the Energy Secretarys Appreciation Award in Golden, Colorado. But as Baum, a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, skillfully reveals, the 127-year-old brewery more than once came as close as a company can to failing by making a fundamental error in judgment that so many family-controlled companies seem to make: being so bound to family tradition that it almost fails to recognize its potential mortality in the face of competition and change. General Electric, IBM, General Dynamics, Ford and Halliburton are all customers. Louise Coors 1861 1941 Missouri California Louise Magdelina Coors (born Webber), 1861 - 1941. By February 1874 they were producing beer for sale. And they don't wear down as quickly as plastics, which can require follow-up surgeries to update, say, a replacement knee. machine shop to start Research Instrument Company in Norman, OK, in 1958 to produce components for oil-field pumps. Anna Coors 1887 - Unknown. [4]:46 The H.F. Coors pottery's trademarks include Coorsite, Alox flatware and Chefsware. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations. Grover married Gertrude at the Coors Mansion. WIKITREE PROTECTS MOST SENSITIVE INFORMATION BUT ONLY TO THE EXTENT STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY. [4] When Prohibition began in Colorado in 1916, he converted his brewery to make malted milk. No matter: Two months after prices started to dive, CoorsTek reached back into the semiconductor market and acquired Japanese rival Covalent Materials for roughly $450 million, paying all cash to close the largest acquisition in its history. Joe Jr., a mathematician and quality engineer, had been at Wilbanks 1973-84 and was its president 198084, and the vice-president for quality at Coors Porcelain 1984-5 prior to his promotion. Herman's older brother, Grover Cleveland Coors (1888-1954), began the fledgling company's foray into ceramic technology by inventing a tool for forming spark plug insulation in 1919. When CoorsTek was last a public company its annual revenues were $334 million and its operating loss was $32 million. . L. Cullen, "Coors Ceramics Electronics Ltd, Glenrothes, Scotland", "Queens Award for Exports to Coors Subsidiary,", Last edited on 29 November 2022, at 22:10, Utah Governor's Medal for Science and Technology. Bill had a vision of wellness and recognized that stress in the workplace destroyed good workers. Inspection and assembly of igniters and silicon nitride bearings. Coors Ceramics' headquarters moved from Ninth St. in Golden to a new building in the Coors Technology Center in an unincorporated area northeast of Golden. [72] Compagnie de Saint-Gobain retained ownership of its 22 High-Performance Refractories, Lo-Mass, Carborundum Abrasive Products and Hexoloy SiC products business sites. We are sad to share Bill Coors passed away peacefully while at home on October 13th, 2018, at the age 102. The last addition to the family, Herman Frederick Coors, came on July 24, 1890, while the family was on vacation in Berlin. He worked in Denver as a gardener for a month, and on May 1, 1872, he purchased a partnership in the bottling firm of John Staderman. All I did was hurry it along. The release of the can in turn led to one of the most successful recycling programs in the country Cash for Cans. Ohio had the highest population of Coors families in 1880. CoorsTek acquired Fort Worth-based Innovative Medical Device Solutions in 2013, and merged the two to create 400-employee CoorsTek Medical LLC, under the direction of Jonathan Coors, son of John. Lately the family is making about as much money from its lesser-known business, CoorsTek, as it is from the famous brewery. All Rights Reserved. Adolph Coors Foundation Castle Rock Foundation C Coors strike and boycott Adolph Coors Adolph Coors II Adolph Coors III Holly Coors Joseph Coors Adolph Coors, a former brewer's apprentice in Prussia, founded his own brewery in the gold rush town of Golden, Colo. in 1873. One of the more interesting aspects of Bills many jobs at the brewery is that of being an official beer taste tester. Husband of Louise Magdelina Coors When Prohibition was begun in Colorado in 1916, he converted his brewery to make malted milk. They have two sons, two daughters-in-law, and eight grandchildren. Even then, according to Baum, marketing executives were treated as outsiders who were given space in a separate office away from the brewery. The average life expectancy for Coors in 1959 was 54, and 84 in 2004. [51] Most of the ceramics-related GTC projects were folded into Coors Ceramics, while others were sold to investors or shut down with the demise of GTC in the late 1990s. On Jan. 1, 1916 Colorado banned alcohol, preceding national prohibition by four years. The company is wholly owned by Keystone Holdings LLC, a trust of the Coors family. In 2016, in recognition for his years of commitment to the Coors barley program and the people who grow the barley used in Coors beer, the Golden Malting group named their newest variety of barley the Bill Coors 100, just in time for Bills 100th birthday. William followed his brother to America in 1870 and took the same respelling of the family name. Herold returned later in 1914 to manage the plant, but left permanently in 1915 for the Guernsey Earthenware Co. in Cambridge, OH. Robert's brother Dallas Morse Coors (1917-1996) was the VP. Thomas Edison was an early customer. Massive profits are one reason. Adolph and Louisa raised three sons and three daughters to adulthood, with two children dying in infancy.
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