ID: 11898
Date of birth : 1855
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Date of death : 1919
Hjálmar Arngrímsson was born in N. Múlasýsla on September 30, 1855. He died in Washington State on May 17, 1919. He took the last names Anderson in Minnesota, then Vopni in Washington.
Spouse: Hólmfríður Jónasdóttir b. at Krossi in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1857.
Children: 1. Arnljótur (Arlo) b. January 23, 1885 2. Sara/Svava (Carol) b. 1887 3. Hulda b. 1890, d. 1894 in Seattle 4. Egill b. March 7, 1895 5. Hilda b. 1897.
Hjálmar came west to Canada in 1876 and lived in various places but settled in Lincoln County, Minnesota. He married and they lived there until 1892, when the family moved west to the Pacific Coast. In a 1910 Seattle census, he is listed as Vopni and worked as a milkman.