Andrew McNally

Andrew McNally (1838 – 7 May 1904) was born in Armagh, Northern Ireland, and immigrated to New York City in 1857. A printer by trade, he moved to Chicago 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 from pneumonia in 1904 at his winter home in Altadena, 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.

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* 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]