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==Notable people== {{See also|List of people from Ellis County, Kansas}} Notable individuals who were born in and/or have lived in Ellis include: * [[Martha L. Addis]] (1878β1942), jeweler in Topeka * [[Walter Chrysler]] (1875β1940), founder of the [[Chrysler Corporation]]<ref>{{cite web | title = Walter P. Chrysler | work = Kansapedia | publisher = [[Kansas Historical Society]] | url = http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/walter-p-chrysler/12015 | access-date = 2010-12-18}}</ref> <!-- All people MUST meet [[Wikipedia:Notability]] requirements. If the person has a Wikipedia article, then wiki link the name (see [[Help:Links#Wikilinks]]). --> * {{anchor|Kepple Disney}} [[Walt Disney]]'s grandfather Kepple Disney established family farms {{convert|3|mi|km}} east of Ellis in 1878. For a time after Walt Disney established [[Disneyland]], the family farms there were known locally as "Disneyland, KS".<ref name= DisneyKS>{{cite news |author= Kittie Dale |url= https://newspapers.com/image/1314669/? |newspaper= The Hays Daily News |date= April 29, 1962 |page= 12 |title= Kansas' Disneyland is Preserved in Tradition for Generations to Come}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=41e-Ru0wRkEC&q=Congregational|isbn=9780679757474|title=Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination|year=2007|publisher=Vintage Books |page= 571 }} ''Triumph of the American Imagination'' repeatedly discusses Ellis, not Hays, not Hog Back, not Yocemento. Page 571 briefly adds, that besides the Missouri farm, Walt wanted to develop the Ellis farm as an attraction, but [[Roy O. Disney|Roy]] blocked those developments.</ref><ref name= Atlas1922 >{{cite book|publisher= Geo. A. Ogle & Co. |title= Standard Atlas of Ellis County, Kansas |year= 1922 |access-date = November 30, 2018 |url= https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/223993/page/29 |location= Chicago }} [Thomas Disney was Kepple Disney's brother. North of the siding is the Beaver Bank school where some of the Disneys taught.]</ref><ref name= DisneyHome>{{cite news |url= https://www.newspapers.com/image/427127066/?terms=%22hogback%22&match=1 |newspaper= The Ellis Review-Headlight |date= May 1, 1925 |page= 6 |title= Community Notes |quote= Mrs. Thomas Disney returned to her home at '''Hogback''' (siding). }}</ref>
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