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And we return to our American stories.

And up next, a story from Pete Coors on Adolf Coors take it away Pete

Pete well so Adolf was born somewhere in the 1840s in a little place called Barmanon Vuppertal in Germany.

Kind of an interesting story. People say the C-O-O-R-S name is kind of unusual for a German name.

His birth certificate, he was signed in his course K-O-R-S, which is very German,

and his father actually signed K-O-H-R-S.

And by the time his sister was born about eight or ten years later,

there was a Dutch magistrate who brought the double O from their languish

and it became CIOOR.

His father was a flour miller.

He died when he was 10.

He had been apprenticed three times in order to survive.

Once as a flower miller with his father's trade,

once as a printer bookfinderer. And those are three

years indentureships, which as I understand in those days that meant you got room and

board and that's about it. And then the third one in brewing. We don't know the details

of how or why he decided to leave Germany. He was always very

proud of his German heritage. But he stowed away on a ship, landed in Baltimore. I had no

papers, had no money, he had no, was able to work off his passage. As soon as he did, he

started working his way across the country. And I guess it's a typical great American story of coming to a land of opportunity and freedom,

but with no safety nets.

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