McHenry County North Dakota in 1895
Pendroy, North Dakota in McHenry County North Dakota, was located between Towner, and Velva North Dakota on the Souris (Mouse) River.
This map is from the 1895 Atlas of North Dakota. Although Pendroy, North Dakota had a post office in 1895, it no longer exists.
Pendroy Migration to & McHenry County North Dakota
In 1883 James Martin Pendroy and sons and Jacob Andrew Pendroy and sons, and other extended Pendroy families traveled west in covered wagons to the Dakotas and founded the Pendroy colony which became Pendroy, North Dakota.
(North Dakota) Pioneer Biographies and Pictures
These biographies contain information about Pendroys who pioneered as settlers in North Dakota. These Pendroys left together from Iowa in 1883 and founded Pendroy, North Dakota, in the Velva area of Mc Henry County, North Dakota. They were among the very first settlers of McHenry County N.D. in 1883.
Later in Montana, two members of this group - Levi Boots Pendroy and James Andrew Pendroy founded the present day town of Pendroy, Montana.
It can be said that this group of Pendroys (descendants of Jacob and Margaret (Boots) Pendroy and some of their In-Laws ) had impact on McHenry County North Dakota in the 1880s.
The list of "FIRSTS" to their credit in
McHenry Co. ND deserves appreciation.
 | Pendroy ND Post Office, the 2nd one in McHenry Co ND, was established in June, 1883, and J. M. Pendroy was commissioned as Post Master. |
| James M. Pendroy (b. 1832) was elected County Judge of McHenry Co. North Dakota. |
| They took an active part in the organization of McHenry County, North Dakota. James Martin Pendroy (b 1832) was one of the first county commissioners elected, and filled that office for a number of years. |
| The first sermon preached in the English language was delivered by Rev. E. P. Royce at the house of J. M. Pendroy, December 30 1885. |
| The first public school taught in the Oak Valley District, was by Mrs. Eliza Masteller, and Miss Janey Strong in 1886, there being two school houses erected in the district that year. |
| The first public printing done for the county was done by Perry A. Pendroy on a hand press in June 1885. |
| Thomas F. Berry and wife built and ran the Hotel Berry in Velva. |
| The Pendroys brought the first purebred Hereford bulls into McHenry County. They drove 125 head of cattle overland when they settled, travelling 15 miles a day with the herd. The cattle belonged to Jacob Andrew Pendroy. |
| In later years Levi Boots Pendroy and Jim Andrew Pendroy, started the town of Pendroy in Montana, which is still in existence. |
| James Martin (Born 1862) Pendroy's oldest daughter, Lizzie, was the first white child born in McHenry county, North Dakota. |
Published Biography of James Martin Pendroy - born 1834 Civil War veteran
Published Tribute and 1936 Obituary of Thomas F. Berry of Velva North Dakota
Article about James Martin (Jim) Pendroy - born 1862 by his son Charles Pendroy.
Auto-biography by James Martin Pendroy - b 1862, s. of Jacob A. Pendroy - N. Dak.
Biography of Eliza Masteller, b. 1857- d. of William and Rachel (Pendroy) Berry.
(Thanks to the Duncan family in Oregon - Mary E. (Berry) Stickels's GG Grand daughter - for these bios. and other information. Mary E. Berry was a daughter of William and Rachel (Pendroy) Berry. Rachel Pendroy was a daughter of Jacob and Margaret (Boots) Pendroy.)
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