ID: 2691
Date of birth : 1873
Place of birth : N. Múlasýsla
Magnús Magnússon was born on February 27, 1873 in Húsey in Hjaltastaðaþinghá in N. Múlasýsla.
Spouse: Ásthildur Grímsdóttir b. in Ísafjarðarsýsla in 1884.
Children: 1. Eiríkur b. 1908 2. Ólafur b. 1915 3. Ragnhildur b. 1916.
Magnús emigrated west to Minneota, Minnesota in 1905, while Ásthildur came west a year later to Glouchester, Massachusetts where her mother, Hólmfríður, lived. She moved from there in 1907 to Minneota where they got married. Magnús taught at Gustavus Adolphus University for a few years but later worked in the management of land owned by a mining company in Virginia County.