Loftur Jónasson Photo Almanak 1920
Loftur Jónasson: He was born in Ólafsfjordur in Eyjafjarðarsýsla on July 9, 1841. He died in Minneota, Minnesota on April 21, 1891.
Spouse: 1) Hólmfríður Einarsdóttir b. in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1843. 2) Aðalbjörg Jóakimsdóttir b. in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1841, d. January 11, 1912.
Children: With Hólmfríður: 1. Jónína b. July 23, 1869. With Aðalbjörg: 1. Margrét Ingibjörg b. April 25, 1877 2. Sigurgeir Valdimar b. 1879 3. Pálína Aðalbjörg b. 1881.
Loftur emigrated west to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1873 and was a pioneer Icelandic settler there. He was there until 1876 when he bought land in the Yellow Medicine County Settlement, naming his farm Lundarbrekka. He sold the land in 1890 and moved to Minneota where he worked as a carpenter. Hólmfríður emigrated west with their daughter Jónína in 1876. If Hólmfríður was his wife they either seperated shortly after her arrival to Canada or she passed away because Aðalbjörg gives birth to their first child in April of 1877. Aðalbjörg emigrated in 1874 and lived in Kinmount, Ontario the first years.