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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
In office January 1889 – January 1890
President of the Common Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts
In office 1888–1888
Member of the Common Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts
In office 1886–1888
Member of the Common Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts
In office 1879–1879
Personal details
Born	July 21, 1854 Boston, Massachusetts, US
Died	March 21, 1910 Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Spouse	Gertrude Winship Dailey
Children	6
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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 and Sophia Augusta (Foye) Sortwell in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 21, 1854. On December 31, 1879, Sortwell married Gertrude Winship Dailey, they had six children, Clara, Frances Augusta, Daniel Richard, Marion, Edward Carter and Alvin Foye Sortwell. Edward Carter Sortwell 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.

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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