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Alvin F. Sortwell

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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]
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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 Salonika, Greece in November 1916 the result of being struck by a staff car while crossing a darkened alleyway.[3]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l 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. ^ a b c d e f g h Eliot, Samuel Atkins (1913), "A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1913", The Cambridge Tribune, Cambridge, MA, p. 246
  3. ^ 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 26th Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts
January 1897 – January 1899
Succeeded by
Preceded by
President of the Common Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts
1888–1888
Succeeded by