He was the fourth son of Elias Disney, a consistently unsuccessful farmer, business manager, and carpenter, and Flora Call, a woman of remarkable patience and forbearance who supported her husband in his pursuit of financial security as he moved from pillar to post.
Disney's earliest memories were of the farm near Marceline, Missouri, to which the family moved from Chicago in 1906. Although he fondly recalled the natural environment and friendliness of rural life, he also remembered the back-breaking work his parents and brothers endured in establishing the farm, which might have proven successful had not the two older brothers deserted the tyranny of the labor and their father for independence back in Chicago. The first evidence of Disney's interest in art came on the farm when he and his sister Ruth scrawled drawings on the side of the white family house with sticks dipped in tar. His mother taught him to read at home, but Disney's schoolwork was only fair because he was too distracted by the bustle of life and nature outside the classroom to sit still for very long.
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