Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1884 — Tefft the Station and Tcfft the Author. [ARTICLE]

Tefft the Station and Tcfft the Author.

_*The station on the “Three I,” Tailroutl, in Kankakee township, was by the railroad people named DunnvilJe, in honor of the Hon. I. D. Duuti, whose residence was but a short 'distance therefrom. When application was macie to the U. S. post-office authorities for the establishment of a postoffice there by that name, objection was made, on the score of the similarity of the name, when writthat of' Danville, in this state. In casting about for a name which would suit the somewhat fastidious post-office authorities the people of the vicinity bethought them of a certain eminent and most estimable gentleman who is tarrying-for the winter at the house of Mr. Dunn, and in his honor the new office was named. . Dr. B. F. Telit, D. D and L. L. D., is a resident of Bangor, Maine, but has been making his hoine for the winter with his old friend, Mr. Dunn. He has been profeseoff of Greek at what is now De Pauw university, president of Lima college, N. Y., and for years editor of The Radies Repository, a well known literary periodical formerly published at Cincinnati. He is a newspaper correspondent, of high repute, and- air author of national reputation Me has already published a fife of Louie Kossuth, the great Hungarian patriot, and -several other work, and is now engaged upon a work to bejcalled ‘Tthe Evolution of Christianity” and negotiating with a Chicago house for the publication of the' same.