Alvin F. Sortwell

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[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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Eliot, Samuel Atkins (1913), A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1913, Cambridge, MA: 'The Cambridge Tribune', p. 246
  3. 1 2 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.
Political offices
Preceded by
William Bancroft
26th 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


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