MENTOR

city, Lake county, northeastern Ohio, U.S. It lies near Lake Erie, 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Cleveland. Mentor Township, organized in 1815, was named for Hiram Mentor, an early settler. Mentor Village was separately incorporated in 1855. After World War II the area experienced rapid population and industrial growth, and in 1962 the township and village were consolidated. James A. Garfield, later U.S. president, bought a farm there in 1876, and his home, Lawnfield, has been preserved as a memorial museum depicting the history of the Western Reserve. The city is the site of Lakeland Community College (1966). There are many garden nurseries in the vicinity. Inc. city, 1963. Pop. (1990) 47,358.