Carl Axel Harstrom (December 20, 1863 – January 24, 1926) was an American educator, and one-term Republican mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut, from 1915 to 1917.
[2][5] His father was a manufacturer in Sweden who brought his family to America in 1872, when Carl Axel was nine years of age.
[2] On June 20, 1888, Professor Harstrom married Lee Selden Partridge of Phelps, New York.
[2] While teaching and serving as headmaster, he also pursued his own education at Yale University in classical Philology from 1896 to 1899.
[2][5] He was a member of Theta Delta Chi, and served as its national president for five consecutive terms.