Marceline 508 North Kansas Avenue
Where did Elias Disney live after Jan 1910?
Elias Disney Elias Charles Disney ( February 6 , 1859September 13 , 1941 ) was the father of Roy and Walt Disney . Early life . Disney was born in the rural village of Bluevale , in what is now Ontario , Canada , to Irish Protestant immigrants Kepple Elias Disney ( 1832–1891 ) and Mary Richardson ( 1838–1909 ) . Both parents had emigrated from Ireland to Canada as children , accompanying their parents . Disney was an ardent socialist and a supporter of Eugene Debs . He became a farmer and a businessman with little success . He moved to California with his father in 1878 in hopes of finding gold . Instead , Kepple was convinced by an agent of the Union Pacific Railroad to buy of land near Ellis , Kansas . In Ellis , Disney attempted to live as an orange grower and failed . Career . Disney worked on his fathers new farm until 1884 , when he left to find another job . He was hired in a railroad machine shop ( one of his co-workers was Walter Chrysler ) , then he joined the railroad crew building the Union Pacific line through Colorado . After the railroad contract was over , he became a professional fiddle player in Denver . Again he was unsuccessful , and he returned to his fathers farm . He also worked for a short time as a mailman in Kissimmee , Florida , close to the eventual site of Walt Disney World . Disney did also attempt to make a career as an orange grower in Florida , but he was unsuccessful . Although frequently unsuccessful at self-employment , Disneys entrepreneurial tendencies were passed on to his son Walt . He was a construction worker for the 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago , an event which author Erik Larson cites as a source of inspiration for his son Walt and the Disney kingdom he would eventually create . He bought shares of O-Zell Company , a jelly-canning factory that also produced apple juice in Chicago , where his son Walt Disney worked before he joined the Red Cross Ambulance Corps in World War I . By 1890 , the Disneys lived at 3515 South Vernon Avenue in the Fourth Ward . Disney worked as a carpenter . On October 31 , 1891 , Disney bought a lot at 1249 Tripp . By 1892 , he had built a house on it . The neighborhood was called Hermosa and had been settled by Scottish , German , and Scandinavian immigrants . Their younger three children were born there . By the turn of the century , Disney had become an active building contractor . He built houses which he owned and then resold . He also built the Saint Paul Congregational Church , a building dedicated on October 14 , 1900 . Disney was one of the churchs trustees , while his wife was its treasurer . According to some sources , Disney worried about the rising criminality of the city . A neighboring family had two adolescent children involved in a car barn robbery , and Disney feared that crime would taint his own children . In 1906 he moved with his family to a farm near Marceline , Missouri . Disney and his family settled there in April , 1906 . On March 5 , he bought a farm . Its previous owner William E . Crane had died in November , 1905 . Crane was a veteran of the American Civil War and his house predated the foundation of Marceline . He bought the farm for $3,000 or $75 per acre . On April 3 , Disney bought an adjoining tract of about from Cranes widow . He paid an additional $450 . Marceline was probably chosen for being accessible from Chicago , for its rural setting , and because his younger brother Robert owned a farm west of the city . The Crane Farm had orchards of apples , peaches , and plums , and fields of grain . The farm animals included pigs , chickens , horses , and cows . The Disneys had a telephone connection by 1907 . Herbert and Raymond Disney never liked life on the farm . They moved out around the fall of 1908 , heading back to Chicago . They found work as clerks . In 1907 , Disney convinced some of his fellow farmers to join the American Society of Equity , a farmers union aiming to consolidate the members buying power . The family sold the farm on November 28 , 1910 , as Disney fell ill . He was suffering from typhoid fever , followed by pneumonia . The Disneys lived in a rented house in Marceline , probably at 508 North Kansas Avenue . Until 1911 , when they moved to Kansas City , Missouri . They lived in a rented house at 2706 East Thirty-first Street . They stayed there until they bought their own modest home in September , 1914 . It was situated at 3028 Bellefontaine Street . On July 1 , 1911 , Disney purchased a newspaper delivery route for The Kansas City Star . It extended from the Twenty-seventh Street to the Thirty-first Street , and from Prospect Avenue to Indiana Avenue . Roy and Walt were put to work delivering the newspapers . The Disneys delivered the morning newspaper Kansas City Times to about 700 customers and the evening and Sunday Star to more than 600 . Their customers increased with time . Disney also delivered butter and eggs to his newspaper customers . They were imported from a dairy farm in Marceline . Disney sold the paper route on March 17 , 1917 . He had been investing in the O-Zell Company of Chicago since 1912 and moved back to the city in 1917 to take an active role in its management . The Disneys rented a flat at 1523 Ogden Avenue . He retired from management work in 1920 and moved back to Kansas City . He was again listed as a carpenter . He moved to Portland , Oregon by the fall ( autumn September–October ) of 1921 . His son Herbert had earlier moved to this city . Personal life . Family . Disney married Flora Call on January 1 , 1888 , in Kismet , Lake County , Florida , north of the land on which Walt Disney World would eventually be built and lived for a short time in adjoining Acron , Florida . She was the daughter of his fathers neighbors . Soon after marriage , the Disneys moved to Chicago , Illinois , where Disney met and befriended Walter Parr , St . Paul Congregational Churchs preacher for whom the Disneys fourth son , Walt , was named . The couple had five children : - Herbert Arthur Disney ( December 8 , 1888 – January 29 , 1961 , aged 72 ) , Letter Carrier ( 1940 US Census ) - Raymond Arnold Disney ( December 30 , 1890 – May 24 , 1989 , aged 98 ) , self-employed Insurance Broker ( 1940 US Census ) - Roy Oliver Disney ( June 24 , 1893 – December 20 , 1971 , aged 78 ) , Businessman and Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company - Walter Walt Elias Disney ( December 5 , 1901 – December 15 , 1966 , aged 65 ) , Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of The Walt Disney Company - Ruth Flora Disney ( December 6 , 1903 – April 7 , 1995 , aged 91 ) Disney was a member of the Congregational Church and often preached stern sermons on Sundays in this church . His son , Walter Elias Disney , was named after a Congregationalist minister named Walter Parr . Disney and Walt had a tense relationship as Disney never saw Walts profession as an artist as a real job . Disneys son Raymond Arnold Disney named his son Charles Elias Disney after his father Elias Charles Disney . Beliefs and habits . Disney never drank alcohol and rarely smoked . According to biographical accounts , Disney was a stern man who could have a strong temper at times , and would take the money his sons earned for safekeeping , considering them too young to know the value of money . If his children misbehaved , Disney would not hesitate to punish them with a switch . Disney would talk socialism with various people and bring them home . He was a fiddler and would bring home anyone else who could play an instrument . External links . - Biography of the Disney Family in Canada - ( documentary footage ) - Windows on Main Street , U.S.A. , at Disneyland Park : Elias Disney