Alvin F. Sortwell

Alvin Foye Sortwell

26^th 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^[1]
Died	March 21, 1910^[1] Cambridge, Massachusetts^[1]
Spouse(s)	Gertrude Winship Dailey^[1]
Children	Clara, Frances Augusta, Daniel Richard, Marion, Alvin Foye Sortwell^[1] and Edward Carter Sortwell, b. March 25, 1889^[1]^[3]
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Alvin Foye Sortwell (July 21, 1854-March 21, 1910) was a Massachusetts politician who served as the twenty sixth Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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 France in November 1916.^[3]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m 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'
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Eliot, Samuel Atkins (1913), A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1913, Cambridge, MA: 'The Cambridge Tribune', p. 246
^ ^a ^b ^c 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.

Political offices
Preceded by William Bancroft	26^th Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts January 1897 - January 1899	Succeeded by Edgar R. Champlin
Preceded by	President of the Common Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1888 - 1888	Succeeded by

Persondata
Name	Sortwell, Alvin F.
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	July 21, 1854
Place of birth	Boston, Massachusetts
Date of death	March 21, 1910
Place of death	Cambridge, Massachusetts