Mentor,_Indiana

Mentor, Indiana

Mentor, Indiana

Unincorporated community in Indiana, United States

Mentor is an unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Dubois County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.[1]

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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

  1. [1]
    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mentor, Indiana
  2. [2]
    "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  3. [3]
    Wilson, George R. (1910). History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910. Windmill Publications. pp. 363.
  4. [4]
    "Dubois County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved February 9, 2017.


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