ID: 13310
Date of birth : 1876
Date of death : 1928
Árni Jónsson was born in 1877 in N. Múlasýsla. He died on January 17, 1928 in Winnipeg.
Spouse: Annie MacDonald from Ottawa d. 1931.
Children: 1. Olive 2. Alice 3. Ariel 4. Clifford 5. Ralph.
Árni and his siblings came west to Winnipeg with their parents, Jón Árnason and Ólafía Jónsdóttir, in 1886. After finishing elementary and high school, Árni studied law and worked as a lawyer in the city. He was actively involved in various organizations of his countrymen, was a shareholder in Viking Press from its foundation in 1920 and was the company’s lawyer for a while.