When Rand Met McNally

While there actually is a human being named Rand McNally—he happens to be a management consultant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin—the most famous name in cartography wasn’t a solo venture.

A printer by trade, William Rand moved to Chicago in 1855 after some time out West during the California Gold Rush. Establishing his own printing shingle in 1856, he quickly found a major client in the Chicago Daily Tribune, a precursor to the Chicago Tribune. The paper wanted him to manage the business they struck up when the presses weren’t rolling.

It was at the Tribune where he met Andrew McNally, a 21-year-old immigrant who had arrived from New York via Armagh, Ireland. McNally, who had been trained in printing as well as cartography, struck Rand as a viable

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