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(two boys and two girls). One girl was Titanic survivor Ella Holmes White.

Edwin started his business in 1849 in Boston, as a seller of household items and entrepreneur, and acquired skills which later helped him in establishing the burglar alarm industry.

Burglar alarm

The alarm was patented in 1853 by the Reverend Augustus Russell Pope (1819-1858) of Somerville, Massachusetts. Edwin Holmes

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