Adolph Coors III

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Adolph Coors III (January 12, 1916 – February 8, 1960), was the grandson of Adolph Coors and heir to the Coors beer empire. Victim of an attempted kidnapping by Joseph Corbett, Jr. in Colorado in 1960, Coors died and a national manhunt for Corbett was launched. Corbett was captured in Vancouver, British Columbia in October of that year.

Coors was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. Like most of his family, including brother Joseph Coors, Adolph graduated from Cornell University, where he was president of the Quill and Dagger society.

Ironically, Coors was allergic to beer.

[edit] Academic references

• Baum, Dan. Citizen Coors: A Grand Family Saga of Business, Politics, and Beer. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2000. ISBN 0-688-15448-4