H and H Coffee

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

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By Docia Schultz Williams · 2000 · Republic of Texas Press (presumed; verify in-hand)

Bibliographic detail

  • Title: The History and Mystery of the Menger Hotel
  • Author: Docia Schultz Williams
  • Year: 2000
  • Publisher: Republic of Texas Press (presumed — common publisher for Williams’s ghost-and-history titles; verify on title page)
  • ISBN: TBD — to be confirmed in-hand
  • Pagination: TBD — to be confirmed in-hand
  • Format: Paperback (presumed; verify in-hand)

Physical description

Docia Schultz Williams’s hospitality-history-plus-ghost-lore volume on the Menger Hotel. Standard popular-press production for the Republic of Texas Press / Williams ghost-and-history series.

Provenance

Physically in-hand prior to formal library accessioning; registered to the library 2026-05-24. Original purchase date and source not separately recorded. Accessioned as HH-BOOK-2026-0015.

Why it matters

The Menger Hotel is a long-established downtown San Antonio hotel sitting in the same commercial district as H and H — and the H and H research corpus has documented direct intersections with the Menger / Menger family:

  1. 1909-06-06 SA Express News — Hoffman–Menger marriage notice — direct family-tie between the Hoffmann surname (H and H founder line) and the Menger family.
  2. 1923-08-26 SA Light — Gus R. Menger president article, and a companion L. B. Menger article — documents Menger-family civic prominence in the H and H operating era.

Williams’s History and Mystery is the popular-narrative entry point to the Menger family history and the hotel’s place in downtown SA across the same decades when H and H was operating. Treat sensational ghost passages as prompts to verify against primary sources, but the book provides the atmospheric and personnel framing for the Menger-family research thread.

Specifically valuable for:

  1. Hoffmann–Menger family connection — Williams may document the Menger genealogy in enough detail to identify which Menger married into the Hoffmann family in 1909.
  2. Gus R. Menger / L. B. Menger period — the 1923 SA Light articles establish these Mengers as civic figures; Williams may name them and provide biographical context.
  3. Menger Hotel as downtown SA institution — period photographs, anecdotes, named guests; useful as comparandum for the H and H downtown commercial context.

Notable contents

  • Menger Hotel architectural history.
  • Menger family biography (likely — verify).
  • Famous-guest anecdotes (Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders particularly).
  • Reported hauntings and atmosphere — treat as secondary to verified material.

Open questions

  • Does Williams name the Menger family member who married into the Hoffmann line (per the 1909 Express News notice)?
  • Does Williams document Gus R. Menger or L. B. Menger as 1923-era civic figures?
  • Any direct H and H mention? (Likely none, but worth checking.)

Related: William R. Hoffmann · Saving San Antonio (Fisher, 1996) · Historic Photos of San Antonio (Faulkner, 2007) · Library