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. McNally currently runs a research group in organic chemistry as an assistant professor of chemistry at Colorado State University.

Sources

• Short, John Rennie (2001). Representing the Republic: Mapping the United States, 1600-1900. London: Reaktion Books. ISBN 1-86189-086-9
• New York Times, 8 May 1904. ANDREW McNALLY DEAD.; Head of Publishing Firm of Rand, McNally & Co. of Chicago.
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