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LEVI B.3 PENDROY (JAMES MARTIN2, JACOB1)1 was born Jul 1861 in Otley, IA1, and died Unknown in ?CA. He married JESSIE E. ROBINSON1 1884 in Marion Co., IA. She was born Nov 1864 in IL1, and died Unknown in ?CA1.

 

Notes for LEVI B. PENDROY:

(source: McHenry county, ND, BLM Records - Surnames "P-R")

  • ( ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nd/mchenry/land/  )

    NAME                     MERIDIAN   TWP   RANGE         SECTION ACREAGE TYPE       CASETYPE  DOCID     DATE

    PENDROY LEVI B        05           154   N 078 W              031      160           272002         PA            2174      07/24/1890

    PENDROY LEVI B        05           154   N 078 W              032      160           251105         PA            167        07/16/1894

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  • 1870 Marion Co., IA census (Summit township) at Pella Marion Co., IA P. O. [p. 267; ll. 5-12]: age 9, born IA;

  • 1900 McHenry Co., ND census (township 156, range 76) [E.D. ?; Sh. 1; ll. 49-55]: age 39, born IA — a boarder is in household;

  • "McHenry Co., ND: Its History & Its People" [1985] p. 472: ‘hotel business at Towner, ND; later to MT; later to CA’;

  • Jeanne Fanny Pendroy cache from Iona M. Loken [2000 A.D.]: children named;

  • Marguerite Park to L. Ellingham [Minot, ND 13-VIII-2001] "Pendroy corrections": deathdate (no venue indicated)

    (">source: Lewis Ellingham - )

     

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Located 21 miles north of Choteau just east of U.S. Highway 89 on Secondary Highway 221, Pendroy is in the heart of one of the best dryland grain-growing areas in Montana.

This tiny rural community, surrounded by grain fields and a magnificent view of the mountains, started out as a beautiful campsite because of the wonderful bluebunch wheat grass around Pendroy.

For many years before 1909, Pendroy was stock country because rich native grasses and accessibility to good water provided excellent conditions for running cattle and sheep. In 1909 homesteaders began taking up locations there and within a short time the range of the big stockmen was gone. By 1916, the section was well settled. The nearest railroad point in the early days was Conrad, nearly 20 miles away to the east.

A surveyor from the Great Northern Railroad was tramping all around looking at Pendroy through the eyes of a surveyor lens. He was looking for a choice place and he finally found a flat one which was uncommon in the area. He couldn't put it halfway between the present spot of Pendroy and Bynum because it would be all on a slope; and he couldn't put it north, because it would be in coulees. So he picked the spot where Pendroy's present location is and made it the terminus of the Great Northern Railroad.

The town's name came from Levi Boots Pendroy who helped survey this area. He was born at Otley, Iowa, and had traveled in a covered wagon to the Mouse River in North Dakota and settled in that area. Later a post office was established and named Pendroy, N.D. He then joined the building of the Great Northern Railroad through North Dakota and it has been reported that he became the right hand man to Jim Hill, the world-famous builder of the Great Northern Railway.

The village of Pendroy was started in 1916, the year the Great Northern railway extended its branch line from Bynum, 11 miles south. The townsite of Pendroy is land formerly owned by Mrs. Margaret Lewis and C.A. Sawyer.

In the 1920s Pendroy was at its peak with approximately 450 people. This was the count for all the people who received their mail at the post office.

It has steadily declined ever since. The post office now has 62 boxes serving a rough estimate of 150 people in the Pendroy area. As in the 1920s, the majority of these people live out of town. This estimate does not include the population of area Hutterite colonies.

(To read the full text of the page, go to

http://www.choteauacantha.com/articles/2004/03/05/visitor/the%20communities%20of%20the%20front/comm7.txt  )

Notes for JESSIE E. ROBINSON:

  • 1900 McHenry Co., ND census (township 156, range 76) [E.D. ?; Sh. 1; ll. 49-55]: age 35, born IL;

  • "McHenry Co., ND: Its History & Its People" [1985] p. 472;

  • Jeanne Fanny Pendroy cache from Iona M. Loken [2000 A.D.]: given name ‘Jessie" & children named;

  • present in a photo from a picnic in Ward County (1889) reprinted in Minot, ND local newspaper

    (source: Lewis Ellingham - )

More About LEVI PENDROY and JESSIE ROBINSON:

  • Marriage: 1884, Marion Co., IA

 

Children of LEVI PENDROY and JESSIE ROBINSON are:

          i. GEORGE C.4 PENDROY1, b. Dec 1884, ND1; d. Unknown, ?CA1.

              Notes for GEORGE C. PENDROY:

                  1900 McHenry Co., ND census (township 156, range 76) [E.D. ?; Sh. 1; ll.

                      49-55]: age 15, born ND;

                  "McHenry Co., ND: Its History & Its People" [1985] p. 472: ‘after 1907 to

                      MT, then CA’;

                  Jeanne Fanny Pendroy cache from Iona M. Loken [2000 A.D.];

                  present in a photo from a picnic in Ward County (1889) reprinted in Minot,

                      ND local newspaper

                  (source: Lewis Ellingham - )

           

          ii. LULU B. PENDROY1, b. Sep 1886, ND1; d. Aft. 1904, ?CA1.

              Notes for LULU B. PENDROY:

                  1900 McHenry Co., ND census (township 156, range 76) [E.D. ?; Sh. 1; ll.

                      49-55]: age 13, born ND;

                  "McHenry Co., ND: Its History & Its People" [1985] p. 472: ‘after 1907 to

                      MT, then CA’;

                  Jeanne Fanny Pendroy cache from Iona M. Loken [2000 A.D.]; "Minot [ND]

                      Daily News" [n.d.] ‘Pioneers Built Log School’ (near Verendrye, ND),

                      1903/4 photo of the grandchildren of James & Andrew Pendroy: present

                      as ‘Lula Pendroy’ in photo (school visitor)

                  (source: Lewis Ellingham - )

           

          iii. MARTHA B. PENDROY, b. Jun 1889, ND1; d. Unknown, ?CA1.

              Notes for MARTHA B. PENDROY:

                  1900 McHenry Co., ND census (township 156, range 76) [E.D. ?; Sh. 1; ll.

                      49-55]: age 11, born ND;

                  "McHenry Co., ND: Its History & Its People" [1985] p. 472: ‘after 1907 to

                      MT, then CA’;

                  Jeanne Fanny Pendroy cache from Iona M. Loken [2000 A.D.]

                  (source: Lewis Ellingham - )

           

          iv. MYRTLE W. PENDROY1, b. Aug 1891, ND1; d. Unknown, ?CA1.

              Notes for MYRTLE W. PENDROY:

                  1900 McHenry Co., ND census (township 156, range 76) [E.D. ?; Sh. 1; ll.

                      49-55]: age 8, born ND;

                  "McHenry Co., ND: Its History & Its People" [1985] p. 472: ‘after 1907 to

                      MT, then CA’;

                  Jeanne Fanny Pendroy cache from Iona M. Loken [2000 A.D.]

                  (source: Lewis Ellingham - )

           

           

Endnotes

1. Lewis Ellingham < >, Date of Import: Oct 23, 2004.

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