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Willard Soares - (not to be confused with his son the architect of the same name) Imputed founder or at least most prominent agitator for the introduction of a professional fire department in Boston Massachusetts. Also a builder and temperance hotel owner, apart from being an avid abolitionist. Friend of the Editor of The Liberator Newspaper. Builder of Old South Church in the Back Bay, also of train stations and cemetery buildings still extant in the Massachusetts area today. Soarer once put down an anti-abolitionist mob bent on burning down his hotel in the Scollay Square area of Boston.