- Andrew McNally
Andrew McNally (1838 –
7 May 1904 ) was born inArmagh ,Northern Ireland , and immigrated toNew York City in 1857. A printer by trade, he moved toChicago in 1858 and got a job in a print shop owned by William Rand at a wage of $9 per week. Rand and McNally became business partners and incorporated Rand, McNally & Co. in 1868, becoming one of the largest and best-known map publishers in history. After Rand retired in 1899, McNally was president until his unexpected death frompneumonia in 1904 at his winter home inAltadena, California . For nearly 100 years the company was majority owned and headed by several generations of the McNally family. In 1997, the family divested its majority stake for a reported $500 million.Sources
* Short, John Rennie (2001). [http://books.google.com/books?id=ANqfqIU-CcsC Representing the Republic: Mapping the United States, 1600-1900] . London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 1861890869
*New York Times , 8 May 1904. [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D00E3DA1E3BE631A2575BC0A9639C946597D6CF ANDREW McNALLY DEAD.; Head of Publishing Firm of Rand, McNally & Co. of Chicago.]
* [http://www.answers.com/topic/rand-mcnally-company?cat=biz-fin Rand McNally & Company: Information and Much More from Answers.com]
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