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Walt Disney (1901–1966), animator and founder of The Walt Disney Company, spent four childhood years on a farm near Marceline. The family moved to Kansas City, Missouri where he founded the animation studio Laugh-O-Gram Studio. Main Street, U.S.A. in Disney theme parks worldwide was inspired by his childhood in Marceline. [17]
The Walt Disney Hometown Museum is located in the restored Santa Fe Railway Depot in Marceline, Missouri. Opened in 2001, the museum houses a collection of memorabilia from the Disney family's farm where they lived from 1905 to 1909 along with Walt Disney's return to the town in 1946. [3]
The family sold the farm on November 28, 1910, as Disney fell ill. He was suffering from typhoid fever, followed by pneumonia. [21] 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.
State Farm is the largest property and casualty insurance provider, and the largest auto insurance provider, in the United States. [5] State Farm is ranked 39th in the 2024 Fortune 500, which lists American companies by revenue. [6] State Farm relies on exclusive agents (also known as captive agents) to sell insurance.
In 1906, when Disney was four, the family moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri, where his uncle Robert had just purchased land. In Marceline, Disney developed his interest in drawing when he was paid to draw the horse of a retired neighborhood doctor. [9]
Castle photo from Main Street at Disneyland. A replica of Walt Disney's apartment at the Walt Disney Family Museum Main Street at Disneyland in August 2018. Inspired by Walt Disney's hometown of Marceline, Missouri (as in the film Lady and the Tramp), Main Street, USA is designed to resemble the center of an idealized turn-of-the-20th-century (c. 1910) American town. [3]
Linn County is a county located in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,874. [1] Its county seat is Linneus. [2] The county was organized January 1, 1837, and named after U.S. Senator Lewis F. Linn of Missouri. [3]
Walsworth Publishing Company is among the 30 largest printing companies in the United States. It is headquartered in Marceline, Missouri. [2]In 1937, Don Walsworth settled in Marceline to print playbills [3] with a borrowed typewriter and a mimeograph machine.