Jacob Schueler (died 1918) was a confectionery proprietor in the city of
Denver
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during the early 1870s. Born in Germany's Rhineland in 1835, he immigrated to America in 1850, and arrived in Denver as one of the Pikes Peakers in 1861. He soon went to serve in the
American Civil War
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and returned.
[''Colorado Transcript'', April 18, 1918.] In 1873, he teamed with fellow German immigrant
Adolph Coors
Adolph Herman Joseph Coors Sr. (February 4, 1847 – June 5, 1929) was a German American brewer who founded the Adolph Coors Company in Golden, Colorado, in 1873.
Early years
Adolph Hermann Joseph Kuhrs was born in Barmen in Rhenish Prus ...
, investing $18,000 to Coors $2000, to start the Golden Brewery, now known as
Coors Brewery, at
Golden, Colorado
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. He continued to operate his other businesses, including a successful bakery and bottling plant in Denver. In 1880 Coors had made enough money to repay his partner's interest, and Schueler sold out to him. In 1889, Schueler went into business with Morris Stackder in Aspen, building the Schueler-Stackder Concentrating mill. In later years Schueler became famous for Rocky Mountain spring water in his own right, running the Ute Chief Mineral Springs bottling works at
Manitou Springs
Manitou Springs is a home rule municipality located at the foot of Pikes Peak in western El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The town was founded for its natural mineral springs. The downtown area continues to be of interest to travelers ...
, Colorado by the early 20th Century.
[''Colorado Transcript'', 1904.] After a great fire that burnt the bottling plant, the business was never the same.
Later life and death
Jacob Schueler died in
Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs is a home rule municipality in, and the county seat of, El Paso County, Colorado, United States. It is the largest city in El Paso County, with a population of 478,961 at the 2020 United States Census, a 15.02% increase since ...
in 1918, and is buried at Denver's
Riverside Cemetery.
Bill Schueler died in the family home at Manitou Springs in 1958. Fred G Schueler (the youngest) son died in August 1960, also in Manitou Springs. Most of the Schueler family was laid to rest in a Denver cemetery, however Fred is buried with his wife Else (Wright) Schueler in Colorado Springs. The family's only survivor David Haskin now lives in Denver and is the director of Rampart search and rescue in Adams County.
See also
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Manitou Mineral Springs
Manitou Mineral Springs are natural mineral springs in Manitou Springs, Colorado and Cheyenne Spring House is on the National Register of Historic Places. The springs are located in one of the country's largest National Historic Districts.
Mani ...
References
1835 births
German emigrants to the United States
Businesspeople from Denver
1918 deaths
People from Manitou Springs, Colorado
19th-century American businesspeople
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