Editing Roy O. Disney (section)

===Early life===
Disney was born to [[Irish Canadians|Irish-Canadian]] [[Elias Disney|Elias Charles Disney]] and English-German-American Flora Call Disney in [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], Illinois, on June 24, 1893. The family moved to [[Marceline, Missouri]], and to [[Kansas City]] in 1911. 

On July 1, 1911, Elias purchased a newspaper delivery route for ''[[The Kansas City Star]]''. It extended from 27th Street to the 31st Street and from Prospect Avenue to Indiana Avenue. Roy and his brother Walt worked as newspaper delivery boys.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/roy-o-disney/|title=Roy O. Disney|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|language=en|access-date=March 24, 2019}}</ref>  The family delivered the morning newspaper, ''[[The Kansas City Times]],'' to approximately 700 customers and ''The Kansas City Star'' to more than 600. The number of customers served increased with time.<ref name="Barrier">{{Cite book|title=The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney|last=Barrier|first=Michael|publisher=Univ. of California Press|year=2008|isbn=9780520256194|location=Berkeley, Calif.|pages=18–20|language=en|oclc=254461789}}</ref>

Disney graduated from the Manual Training High School of Kansas City in 1912. He left the paper delivery route and worked on a farm in the summer. He was then employed as a [[Bank teller|bank clerk]] along with brother Raymond Arnold Disney at the [[First National Bank of Omaha#First National Bank Kansas|First National Bank]] of Kansas City.<ref name="Barrier" />  

Disney served in the [[United States Navy]] from 1917 to 1919.<ref name="Barrier" /> He military career was cut short by a contraction of [[tuberculosis]] during his service and Disney was honorably discharged from military duty.

While convalescing from a recurrence of tuberculosis at the [[Sawtelle Veterans Home]] in Los Angeles in October of 1923, his brother Walt came to visit late at night to ask for his help in establishing a cartoon studio. After Walt explained that he had secured a deal with New York distributor [[Margaret J. Winkler|Margaret Winkler]], Disney agreed and left the hospital the next morning—never again having a relapse of tuberculosis.<ref name=":1" />