Lang, H. O., ed.  "The History of the Willamette Valley, Being A Description 
of the Valley and its Resources, with an account of its Discovery and 
Settlement by White Men, and its Subsequent History; Together with Personal 
Reminiscences of its Early Pioneers."  Portland, OR, Geo. H. Himes, Book and 
Job Printer, 1885.  p. 643.

ROBERT PENTLAND

     Born in New castle, England, in 1820; came to the United States in 1844 and
joined the Oregon immigration of the succeeding year.  Arriving on the
Willamette, he took charge of a grist mill at Oregon City belonging to George
Abernethy, and continued therewith until 1849, when he paid a visit to
California.  Settled next on a donation claim near Albany, and engaged in flour
milling and merchandising at that place.  In 1855 he became a partner with
Abernethy and Leander Holmes in the purchase of the Linn City property at the
Willamette Falls.  They erected the largest flouring mill in Oregon; at the same
time Mr. Pentland owned an interest in the Portland water works with Stephen
Coffin.  In 1860 the Linn City improvements were destroyed by fire, and as soon
as the transportation works were renewed by Mr. Pentland in company with Colonel
Kelly, the great flood of 1861-62 washed all away.  Mr. Pentland then removed to
The Dalles and engaged in business for fifteen years, building, among other
structures, two flouring mills.  In 1878 he purchased the flouring mill at Scio,
Linn County, and now runs it besides a sash and door and furniture factory.
Married Miss Jane Law at Newcastle, England, in 1841.  She died in 1875, and the
next year he wedded Mrs. Eliza E. Reynolds, a native of Maine.  Has two children
living -- Mrs. S. L. Brooks, of The Dalles, and E. C. Pentland, of Alkali, Wasco
County.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.