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 byWilliam Bancroft
Succeeded byEdgar 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
BornJuly 21, 1854[1]
Boston, Massachusetts, US[1]
DiedMarch 21, 1910[1]
Cambridge, Massachusetts, US[1]
SpouseGertrude Winship Dailey[1]
Children6[1][3]
Signature

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", The Cambridge Tribune, Cambridge, MA, 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


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