Alvin F. Sortwell

Alvin Foye Sortwell was a Massachusetts politician who served as the twenty-sixth Mayor of [Cambridge, Massachusetts].
Sortwell was born to Daniel Robinson Sortwell and Sophia Augusta 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.