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{{Infobox officeholder | name =Alvin Foye Sortwell | image =Alvin F. Sortwell.png | image_size = | caption = | office =26th Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts | term_start =January 1897 | term_end =January 1899 | predecessor =William Bancroft | successor =Edgar R. Champlin | office2 =Member of the Board of Aldermen of Cambridge, Massachusetts<ref name="DRSortwell"/> | term_start2 =January 1889 | term_end2 =January 1890 | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | office5 =Member of the Common Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts<ref name="DRSortwell"/> | term_start5 =1879<ref name="Atkins">{{Citation |last = Eliot |first=Samuel Atkins| title = A History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1913|page =246 | work = The Cambridge Tribune | location = Cambridge, MA | year =1913}}</ref> | term_end5 =1879<ref name="Atkins"/> | predecessor5 = | successor5 = | office4 =Member of the Common Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts<ref name="DRSortwell">{{Citation |last = Eliot |first=Samuel Atkins| title = Biographical History of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State. Volume IV| publisher = Massachusetts Biographical Society' | location = Boston, MA | year =1913}}</ref> | term_start4 =1886<ref name="Atkins"/> | term_end4 =1888<ref name="Atkins"/> | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | office3 =President of the Common Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts<ref name="DRSortwell"/> | term_start3 =1888<ref name="Atkins"/> | term_end3 =1888<ref name="Atkins"/> | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | birth_date =July 21, 1854<ref name="DRSortwell"/> | birth_place =Boston, Massachusetts, US<ref name="DRSortwell"/> | death_date =March 21, 1910<ref name="DRSortwell"/> | death_place =Cambridge, Massachusetts, US<ref name="DRSortwell"/> |alma_mater= | occupation = | spouse =Gertrude Winship Dailey<ref name="DRSortwell"/> | children =6<ref name="DRSortwell"/><ref name="Howe2">{{Citation |last = Howe |first=Mark Antony De Wolfe| year =1920| title = Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany, Volume 1|page =166 | publisher = Harvard University Press | location = Cambridge, MA }}</ref> |signature=Alvin F. Sortwell signature.png }}
'''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<ref name="DRSortwell"/> and Sophia Augusta (Foye) Sortwell in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 21, 1854.<ref name="Atkins"/> On December 31, 1879, Sortwell married Gertrude Winship Dailey,<ref name="Atkins"/> they had six children, Clara, Frances Augusta, Daniel Richard, Marion, Edward Carter and Alvin Foye Sortwell.<ref name="DRSortwell"/> Edward Carter Sortwell<ref name="Howe2"/> 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.<ref name="Howe2"/>
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{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | title=26th Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts | before= William Bancroft | years=January 1897 – January 1899 |after= Edgar R. Champlin }} {{succession box | title=President of the Common Council of Cambridge, Massachusetts | before= | years=1888–1888 |after= }} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sortwell, Alvin F.}} Category:1854 births Category:1910 deaths Category:Mayors of Cambridge, Massachusetts Category:Cambridge, Massachusetts City Council members Category:19th-century mayors of places in Massachusetts
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