ID: 19229
Date of birth : 1847
Place of birth : Ísland
Guðmundur Vigfússon was born in Iceland in 1847. He took the last name Goodman in the west.
Spouse: Sigríður Gísladóttir b. 1847 in Iceland.
Children: Jóhanna (Annie) Ingibjörg b. May 17, 1889 2. Lilly b. 1891 3. Vigfús b. 1894.
They came west in 1887 and first settled in Duluth, Minnesota. There, Jóhanna was baptized by Reverend Níels Steingrímur Thorlaksson, the first Icelandic child to be baptized in the city. They moved north to Manitoba around 1893 and from there shortly afterwards, west to the Pacific coast. In 1900, the family is registered as living in South Bend Township, Pacific County in Washington, where Guðmundur worked in a sawmill.