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Mentor is an unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Dubois County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.[1]
History
Mentor was founded in 1881 by Francis M. Sanders. Sanders, an admirer of President James A. Garfield, named the settlement for Garfield's hometown of Mentor, Ohio.[3]
An old variant name of the community was called Altoga. A post office ran with this name from 1883 to 1908.[4]
References
- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mentor, Indiana
- ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
- ^ Wilson, George R. (1910). History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910. Windmill Publications. pp. 363.
- ^ "Dubois County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
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