(FOX NEWS) – James Edgar channeled entrepreneurial spirit and a gift for making people smile into changing the way the world celebrates Christmas. Edgar was the first department-store Santa Claus.
An immigrant from Scotland, he opened the James Edger & Co. department store in downtown Brockton, Massachusetts in the late 1800s.
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He had a knack for clever promotion, a love of children and a patriotic zeal for hs adopted homeland, said Johnny Merian, a longtime Brockton businessman, who lights up like a child seeing Santa for the first time when he discusses the local legend.
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