ID: 5117
Date of birth : 1879
Place of birth : Snæfellsnessýsla
Date of death : 1956
Þorgeir Finnbogi Siggeirsson was born on September 27, 1879 in Snæfellsnessýsla. He died on September 24, 1956 in Nicollet County in Minnesota. He took the name Thorgeir Olson in the west.
Spouse: Isis Perkins b. March 4, 1880 in Minnesota, d. November 5, 1955 in Minnesota.
Children: 1. Bernice Gertrude b. January 22, 1906 2. Nedra Clair b. January 20, 1909.
Þorgeir was the son of Siggeir Ólafsson and Halldóra Guðmundsdóttir who came west in 1886 and settled in Duluth, Minnesota in 1890. Þorgeir became a journalist and worked at the Duluth Herald for years. His death certificate names him as the newspaper’s news editor.