{"id":49583,"date":"2022-12-09T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/meet-the-american-who-created-the-first-department-store-santa-immigrant-entrepreneur-james-edgar-49583"},"modified":"2022-12-09T02:00:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T07:00:42","slug":"meet-the-american-who-created-the-first-department-store-santa-immigrant-entrepreneur-james-edgar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/meet-the-american-who-created-the-first-department-store-santa-immigrant-entrepreneur-james-edgar-49583","title":{"rendered":"Meet the American who created the first department-store Santa: immigrant entrepreneur James Edgar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Edgar channeled entrepreneurial spirit and a gift for making people smile into changing the way the world celebrates Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Edgar was the first department-store Santa Claus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An immigrant from Scotland, he opened the James Edger & Co. department store in downtown Brockton, Massachusetts<\/a> in the late 1800s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Merian has long championed the cause of James Edgar. He’s working on a book about the first department-store Santa, discussed him at length in the 2011 documentary “Becoming Santa” and has found ways to honor him around the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Edgar “was a real-life Santa Claus. He loved his community. He wanted to make people happy,” said Merian.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He lived the universal spirit of Christmas. That spirit still lives here in Brockton today.”<\/p>\n

The 19th-century entrepreneur<\/a> often greeted customers while dressed up as various child-friendly characters: a sea captain, a clown, even George Washington.<\/p>\n

He donned a Santa Claus suit at his department store for the first time in 1890.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He got the idea to dress up as Santa Claus based on an 1863 illustration of Santa by artist Thomas Nast<\/a>,” writes the International Santa Claus Hall of Fame, which made Edgar one of its charter members in 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The organization proclaims the Brockton businessman “The First Department Store Santa.”<\/p>\n

Nast, a German immigrant and artist, created the first pop-culture images of Santa Claus that we know today: a plump jolly old elf with rosy cheeks, white bushy beard and red suit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nast\u2019s version of Santa Claus appeared in national magazines such as Harper\u2019s Weekly during and after the Civil War.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The same image appeared in the front door of Edgar\u2019s department store, with the owner wearing a custom-made red Santa suit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It proved to be an instant sensation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Within days,” adds the Hall of Fame, “children from as far as Boston and Providence, Rhode Island<\/a> came by train to see Edgar as Santa.”<\/p>\n

An old-timer identified only as Mr. Pearson described the experience to local historian Bob Kane many years later.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I can still remember seeing Santa fo the first time,” said Person. “Nowadays Santa Claus is everywhere. Back in the 1890s, we saw drawings of him in the newspaper and magazines. But we never thought we’d see him in person.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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It was a memory, the man said, “I have treasured all my life.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Jim Edgar deserves a pedestal all his own up there alongside Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed and John Henry,” Yankee Magazine wrote in 1969, in one of the few major pieces written about the Brockton businessman.<\/p>\n

“His wonderful life of Americana is the caliber that inspires legends. Yet for some reason Edgar \u2026 has never received the credit he deserves.”<\/p>\n

James Edgar was born on a farm in Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland<\/a> on March 5, 1843, to John and Margaret (Lithgow) Edgar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He “pawned his watch to pay his fare to America, arriving in Boston in 1865 with a total capital of one $2.50 gold piece and 25 cents,” wrote Kane, the Brockton historian, in a short 1992 Edgar biography.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“After 10 years [of] working for the firm of Callendar, MacAusland & Troupe \u2026 James Edgar came to the conclusion that he could make more money working for James Edgar.”<\/p>\n

He opened his first department store with a partner in Brockton in 1878.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The city of 100,000 people south of Boston is best known today as the home of the only undefeated heavyweight boxing champ, Rocky Marciano; and of the 1980s middleweight champ Marvelous Marvin Hagler.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Edgar’s era, Brockton was in its glory as an industrial little powerhouse. Among other claims to fame, the city was the nation\u2019s biggest shoe manufacturer in the 1800s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“We pretty much shoed the whole Union army in the Civil War,” said John McGarry, who has portrayed Santa Claus in the city’s Christmas parade for many years.<\/p>\n

Thomas Edison used energetic Brockton as the vehicle to demonstrate the power of his latest inventions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“In late 1884, [Edison] personally supervised the wiring of the world’s first centrally powered theater, fire station, shoe factory [and] high school,” in Brockton, the city\u2019s historical society notes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But like many small industrial cities across the country, Brockton has fallen on harder times in recent decades as American manufacturing fled overseas.<\/p>\n

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“We’re wealthy in people if not on the financial ledger,” Mayor Bob Sullivan told Fox News Digital, citing Edgar as one of many Brocktonians who has made a lasting impact on the nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Edgar reminds local residents of the city’s grand past \u2014 and what it can become again in the future, said Merian, the downtown businessman.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While James Edgar is recognized by the International Santa Hall of Fame as the first department-store Santa, he’s certainly not the most famous.<\/p>\n

That honor goes to Macy\u2019s, with its flagship location in New York City<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The beloved 1947 Hollywood classic “Miracle on 34th Street,”<\/a> and decades of relentless, hugely successful marketing by the retail landmark has forged an ironclad affiliation between Macy\u2019s and Santa. <\/p>\n

Edmund Gwenn, the actor who played the mysterious midtown miracle worker in the movie, is \u2014 like Edgar \u2014 a charter member of the International Santa Claus Hall of Fame.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But a Macy\u2019s historian, Bob Rutan, told the Boston Globe in 2008 that “Brockton is [the] home of the first retail Santa.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

R.H. Macy, the department store titan, was a Massachusetts native who opened his first namesake outlet in the Bay State mill town of Haverhill in 1851.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He moved Macy\u2019s to Manhattan in 1858. Macy died in 1877, the year before Edgar opened his Brockton department store.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Merian suspects that the company, with its Massachusetts connections, quickly learned of the idea and brought the department-store Santa to Manhattan. <\/p>\n

“Santa first became part of Macy\u2019s holiday season when the store advertised that Santa came to stock their counters with his finest gifts” in 1861, claims the Macy\u2019s website. A spokesman confirmed the 1861 date over the phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Santa appeared in Macy’s for the first time the following year, the company claims.<\/p>\n

Regardless of any dispute, the real Santa Claus loves his global army of department-store doppelg\u00e4ngers as much as the children who flock to see them, claims McGarry, Brockton’s parade-day Santa.<\/p>\n

“Kids can now put in their request right in their hometown, instead of hoping to get a message to the North Pole,” said McGarry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It has streamlined the whole process and made life much easier for Santa Claus.”<\/p>\n

Department-store Santas have since been joined by a legion of mall Santas, airport Santas, street corner Santas \u2014 even a few bad Santas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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One notably terrible Santa worked at Higbee’s Department Store in Cleveland after World War II.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

He famously kicked Ralphie Parker down the store’s Christmas slide after the bespectacled local boy and hopeful Wild West marksman asked Santa for a Red Ryder B.B Gun.<\/p>\n

“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid,” Bad Santa barked, while pushing Ralphie away with the bottom of his dirty boot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

James Edgar, the immigrant from Scotland who reshaped Christmas in America, died on Sept. 20, 1909, at his summer home in nearby Lakeville, Massachusetts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was 66 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kane, the local biographer, called him “Brockton\u2019s grand old man.”<\/p>\n

Edgar had suffered a stroke five years earlier, which limited his mobility. But he was able to enjoy the opening of a new retail outlet in 1907. It was the first concrete department store in America \u2014 an innovation meant to save lives by reducing the chances of fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Edgar is buried beneath a giant mausoleum in Brockton\u2019s Melrose Cemetery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His spirit lives on in malls and department stores around the country and around the world \u2014 and in the Christmas dreams of young boys and girls all year long.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Edgar\u2019s legacy is best felt in Brockton.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A\u00a0plaque downtown marks the site today of Edgar’s outlet, where he introduced the store Santa. The plaque incudes the names of annual winners of the James Edgar Community Service Award.<\/p>\n

The city hosts an annual reading of “The Story of James Edgar” \u2014 much like other communities do “A Visit from Saint Nicholas” \u2014 and celebrates his legacy in its Christmas parade held in Edgar\u2019s honor each year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Brockton held the Guinness World Record for the most people wearing a Santa hat in one place (800) as recently as 2010. It was surpassed following a promotion a Major League Baseball game in 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Some local children grow up believing that Santa Claus was born in Brockton and that he visits their community before any others.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a belief that has not been disproven by any scientific evidence, notes Brockton Santa John McGarry,<\/p>\n

“I think I have finally figured out the real purpose and message of James Edgar,” Johnny Merian, the downtown Brockton businessman who has championed Edgar for nearly four decades, shared in a text to Fox News Digital late Thursday.<\/p>\n

“I think the message of his Christmas story is one of hope for all children \u2014 and here in Brockton it’s a message of rebuilding this community once again.”<\/p>\n

“We believe,” he said.<\/p>\n

To read more stories in this unique “Meet the American Who\u2026” series from Fox News Digital, <\/strong><\/i>click here<\/u><\/strong><\/i><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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