Walt Disney found much inspiration from his boyhood home of Marceline, Missouri, which was founded on this day in 1888. To learn more about the occasion, we turned to Kaye Malins, affectionately known as the Queen of Marceline, who currently resides in Walt’s boyhood house. Kaye told us, “In 1885, officials of the Atchison Topeka …
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Long before Flora was a character in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, the name had special meaning to the Disney family. After all, Flora was the name of Walt Disney’s mother. Flora Call was born in Steuben, Ohio, and on New Year’s Day 1888, she married Elias Disney. Together they had five children: Herbert Arthur, Raymond Arnold, …
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A happy event happened on this day in 1865, when Otis Harlan was born in Zanesville, Ohio. Although he would go on to provide the voice of Happy in the 1937 animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, he already had a long successful acting career by that time. Otis began his theatrical career …
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On this day, Walt Disney’s father, Elias Disney was born in Bluevale, Ontario, Canada to Kepple and Mary Disney. Throughout his life, Elias dabbled in a variety of careers, usually with little success. He was a carpenter contractor in Chicago where Walt was born and later became a newspaper dealer in Kansas City, Missouri. Interestingly, …
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