Alvin F. Sortwell

Alvin Foye Sortwell (July 21, 1854 – March 21, 1910) was a Massachusetts politician who served as the twenty-sixth Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Alvin Foye Sortwell
26th Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
In office January 1897 – January 1899
Preceded by	William Bancroft
Succeeded by	Edgar R. Champlin
Member of the Board of Aldermen of Cambridge, Massachusetts[1]
In office January 1889 – January 1890
President of the Common Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts[1]
In office 1888[2] – 1888[2]
Member of the Common Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts[1]
In office 1886[2] – 1888[2]
Member of the Common Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts[1]
In office 1879[2] – 1879[2]
Personal details
Born	July 21, 1854[1] Boston, Massachusetts, US[1]
Died	March 21, 1910[1] Cambridge, Massachusetts, US[1]
Spouse(s)	Gertrude Winship Dailey[1]
Children	6[1][3]
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Sortwell was born to Daniel Robinson Sortwell[1] and Sophia Augusta (Foye) Sortwell in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 21, 1854.[2] On December 31, 1879 Sortwell married Gertrude Winship Dailey,[2] they had six children, Clara, Frances Augusta, Daniel Richard, Marion, Edward Carter and Alvin Foye Sortwell.[1] Edward Carter Sortwell[3] joined the American Ambulance Field Service, Edward died in Salonika, Greece in November 1916 the result of being struck by a staff car while crossing a darkened alleyway.[3]

Notes

1. Eliot, Samuel Atkins (1913), Biographical History of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State. Volume IV, Boston, MA: Massachusetts Biographical Society'
2. Eliot, Samuel Atkins (1913), A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1913, Cambridge, MA: 'The Cambridge Tribune', p. 246
3. Howe, Mark Antony De Wolfe (1920), Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany, Volume 1, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, p. 166.