Hallgrímur Thorlacius and grandson Photo: SÍND
Hallgrímur Thorlacius was born in 1863 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla.
Spouse: María Sigfúsdóttir Bergman b. in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1864.
Children: 1. Pétur Hallgrimur b. January 12, 1886 2. Sigfús b. June 20, 1887 3. Kristín Ingibjörg b. August 21, 1889 4. Guðrún Ólöf b. January 1, 1892 5. Einar b. February 24, 1893 6. Thorunn Valgerður Thorlacius b. January 26, 1897 7. Stefanía b. 1899 8. Jón b. 1904 9. Aldís Elizabet b. February 4, 1906.
Hallgrímur came west with his foster parents and relatives, Pétur Thorlacius and Kristín Ólafsdóttir, in 1873 and grew up near Stanton, Wisconsin in 1873-1876 and in the Lyon County Settlement in Minnesota, 1876-1880. He moved to the Garðar Settlement in N. Dakota that year and took land there.