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Pendroy, Montana
Don Pendroy 
Don Pendroy After the civil war in 1883, an extended family group of about 40 people of the family Pendroy, including Jacob Andrew Pendroy and his brother James M. Pendroy and his 4 sons (Levi B., James A, Perry A. and John B. Pendroy), left Marion County, Iowa and went west to Dakota Territory in a covered wagons. (Levi Boots Pendroy's parents were James Martin and Sarah Jane (Baldwin) Pendroy.) James Martin Pendroy had earlier left Delaware County, Indiana in 1849 when Iowa was opened for settlement. In Iowa he was a Civil War veteran, serving in the 40th Iowa Infantry. In McHenry County North Dakota, he was a County Commisioner and County Judge. These Pendroy families founded in 1881 what was originally referred to as the Pendroy Colony in the North Dakota Territory which became Pendroy, North Dakota near the current towns of Velva and Towner N. D. in the Mouse/Souris River area in north central North Dakota. (McHenry County). Around the turn of the century two of these families moved westward into Montana Territory. Both Levi Boots Pendroy and his brother James Andrew Pendroy were among early first settlers in Teton County, near present day Pendroy, Montana. But it was Levi Boots Pendroy mentioned above who later became the namesake for Pendroy, Montana, once a town of over 400 but with about 100 people now. The following information was published in the publication "Pendroy, a Wide Spot In The Road", 1991, Pendroy Book Committee, Griggs printing and Publishing: Page 3, Author Diane Bingham: "In 1916 the Great Northern Railroad announced the extension of their north - south railroad line from Bynum to Porter bench. It was at this point that Pendroy, Montana was born. In these early years Louis W. Hill, son of James Hill, was president of the Great Northern Railroad. James Hill met L.B. Pendroy west of Devil's lake, Dakota Territory in 1885 while he was scouting this country for a possible route for his railroad." Pendroy was one of the early pioneer homesteaders and businessmen of Teton County, Montana. LB had been a surveyor and associate of James Hill the builder of The Great Northern railroad. When this line pushed their branch north of Choteau in 1916, they named the terminus Pendroy to honor LB. The Choteau Montana county paper ran an article in 1955 on the death of James M. Pendroy's son Levi Boots Pendroy at age 93 also stating this. The full text of the 1955 Choteau county Montana paper article from 1955 contains a picture of the elderly Levi B. Pendroy. (Here is the full unaltered text of the newspaper article about Levi B. Pendroy.) Late L.B. Pendroy Worked for Jim Hill.
Levi Boots Pendroy
Don Pendroy 