Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian and Flora Call Disney, an German-American were blessed with Walter Elias Disney on December 5, 1901. Walt was born in the windy city of Chicago, Illinois. He had three brothers and one sister. 4He was a medium sized child, not fat yet not extremely bony. He developed into an average man, with brown hair, brown eyes and he always had a moustache.
             5Before Walt grew very much his family moved to Marceline, Missouri where he lived out most of his childhood. While he was seven years old he had an interest in drawing and art. He used to draw small sketches and sell them to people in the neighborhood. His uncle, a train engineer got Walt a job selling concessions to people on the trains. 6Walt Disney went to McKinley High School in back in Chicago. He received honorary degrees from Yale, Harvard, University of Southern California, and UCLA.
             7When Disney was 16 he applied for the armed services to fight in World War I, but because of his age he wasn't admitted. Instead he went into the Red Cross. He was send to France and drove an ambulance. Instead of it being covered in camouflage, he drew cartoons all over it.
             8On July 13, 1925 Walt Disney married Lillian Bounds, one of his first employees. He had two daughters Diane and Sharon. Diane then married Ron Miller who was a former football star at USC. He was also a Vice President, Executive Producer at the Disney studios. Sharon married William Lund an executive Economics Research Associates, a consulting firm headquartered in Los Angeles. Walt Disney had ten grandchildren, seven through Diane and three through Sharon.
             When Walt returned from France he wanted to pursue a career as a commercial cartoonist. He created a company called Laugh-O-Grams and made short animated films for local businesses. In his spare time he was producing The Alice Comedies, a story about a real girl and her adventures in an animated world.
             Before Walt was 22...