[1] A printer by trade, he moved to Chicago in 1858 and got a job in a print shop owned by William H. Rand at a wage of $9 per week.

[2] Rand, McNally & Co. becoming one of the largest and best-known map publishers in history.

Rancho Los Coyotes later became known as the cities of Cerritos, La Mirada, Stanton, and Buena Park.

[3] 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 lead by generations of the McNally family.