H and H Coffee

Dedicated to the history of the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. est. 1899 in San Antonio, Texas.

Texas-historical research and publishing organization, founded 1897 in Austin. Hosted at the University of Texas at Austin. For the H and H Coffee Factory project, TSHA functions in three roles: publisher of the Handbook of Texas and related reference works, conference / network for Texas historians (multiple KB-cited researchers are members), and research source for documented Menger-family history.

TSHA publications cited in the KB

The KB cites TSHA reference publications across several family-genealogy and SA-history pages:

  • Handbook of Texas Online — the canonical Texas historical reference. Cited from people/william-a-menger.md and people/mary-menger.md for the Mary Menger article that surfaces the Menger Hotel founders.
  • Mary Menger article (Tim Draves, 30 June 2020) — the TSHA Handbook entry that anchors the Catherine Menger Lineage Question — resolved as daughter (not granddaughter) of William A. Menger. Authored by Tim Draves (husband of Nancy Draves, great-granddaughter of R. W. Menger).
  • Spanish Governor’s Palace article (Tim Draves, 6 April 2016) — separate Handbook entry by the same author.
  • Mary Menger earlier publication — the 2006 Journal of the Life and Culture of San Antonio article (UIW) predating the 2020 Handbook revision; potentially contains material revised or cut in the published version.
  • TSHA Mary Jon and J. P. Bryan Excellence in Education Award (2009) — won by Tim Draves; documents his standing in the SA-history professional network.
  • Lawrence T. Jones III Research Fellowship in Civil War Texas History (2009) — won by Nancy Draves; $1,000 annual award for the best research proposal on Texas Civil War history; her 2009 award funded the research that produced A Promise Fulfilled (Texas Tech UP, 2017). Annual deadline November 15; winner must attend TSHA Annual Meeting. Fellowship URL: https://www.tshaonline.org/awards/lawrence-t-jones-iii-research-fellowship-in-civil-war-texas-history

TSHA member network

KB-documented TSHA members include:

  • Nancy Draves — published TSHA member; planned attendance at the February 2019 TSHA conference; proposed writing a Handbook of Texas entry for Minnie Menger (not yet published per the project record).
  • Tim Draves — published TSHA author (multiple Handbook entries); award-winning TSHA-affiliated educator. Bexar County GIS StoryMap series (both hosted at GIS@BEXAR.ORG): co-authored Bexar County during the Civil War (Feb 2021, with Nancy Draves, 10,369 views); sole author Rail to Bexar (Jan 2024, railroad arrives SA 1877).

The TSHA network is the most efficient research-collaboration path for Menger-family / SA-coffee-industry primary-source work that requires institutional credibility.

Tim Draves contributed the “Common Thread” chapter to 300 Years of San Antonio & Bexar County (Claudia Guerra, ed., Trinity University Press, 2018) — a closely related publishing venue documented from people/nancy-draves.md. Trinity University Press and TSHA Press are the two natural publishing venues for any future H&H-focused regional-history book.

Open questions

  • The Minnie Menger Handbook entry. Nancy Draves proposed authoring this in January 2019; KB has no documentation of submission or publication. Status check: has the entry been written, submitted, or rejected? (2026-06-19: a ~450-word draft biography is ready — now in the menger-family KB inbox (TODO-53) — to offer Nancy/Tim Draves as a starting point.)
  • A Handbook entry on Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company itself. Nancy Draves mentioned this as a future possibility in 2019. If filed by a TSHA member, the company’s regional-history significance (60+ year operation, four-generation family business, Menger-family connection) appears to qualify. (2026-06-19: a ~700-word draft entry is ready — now in the menger-family KB inbox (TODO-53) — to hand to Tim Draves to sponsor/co-author and propose via the TSHA Author Agreement process.)
  • TSHA membership for the H&H project. Direct project membership would unlock the Southwestern Historical Quarterly archive and the TSHA member-only conference workshops.

Handbook of Texas entry drafts (project, in progress)

Drafts prepared from the KB for submission to the Handbook of Texas (channel: Tim Draves, a published Handbook author; the Minnie Menger entry was Nancy Draves’s 2019 proposal). All are organization/biography entries that satisfy the Handbook’s deceased-only rule. The draft files were moved to the menger-family KB (work/inbox/) for processing (TODO-53) — the canonical home for Menger-family work; the project record below is retained here for context.

  • Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Company — organization entry (~615 words).
  • William R. Hoffmann — biography of the founder (~400 words).
  • Wilhelmina “Minnie” Menger (Hoffmann; Schlosser) — biography (~360 words).
  • William Edward “W. E.” Hayman — biography (~480 words).
  • Dr. Rudolph Menger (1851–1921) — biography of the physician/naturalist family patriarch (~380 words; needs sourcing work — parentage pending TODO-49).
  • Gustave P. Menger — biography of the long-serving president (~440 words).
  • Rudolph W. Menger (1892–1985) — biography of the secretary-treasurer / advertising head + amateur archaeologist (~370 words).
  • Theodore J. “T. J.” Menger (1896–1987) — biography of the credit manager / treasurer, 41-year tenure (~250 words).
  • Louis B. Menger (1886–1971) — biography of the office manager / custodian of accounts (~180 words; thin subject).
  • Albert G. Menger (1917–1994) — biography of the last H&H president (~215 words).

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