Career
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. After Rand retired in 1899, McNally was president until his unexpected death from pneumonia in 1904 at his winter home in Altadena, California. Foreign 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.
