Kristján Björnsson was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1872. He took the name Kristján B. Skagfjörð in the west.
Spouse: 1898 Sæunn Magnúsdóttir b. in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1872.
Children: 1. Lilja (Lily) 2. Odda 3. Steina 4. Rut (Ruth) 5. Bertha.
Kristján came west to Ontario, Canada in 1873 with his parents, Björn Skagfjörð and Guðlaug Pálsdóttir. They were first in Rosseau and then Omemee. From there, the family moved to New Iceland and in 1881 to the Hallson Settlement in N. Dakota. Kristján went west in 1891 to the Lögberg Settlement in Saskatchewan where he took land. They moved in 1894 back to N. Dakota and settled west of Akra. They were there until 1900 when they took land in the Brown Settlement from the Provincial Government because he had exercised his right to free land in Canada. In the following years, he made a name for himself in the area and gradually his land ownership grew. For several years he was the largest landowner in the settlement. He then moved to Winnipeg in 1907 and turned to real estate, but continued to own his land in Brown. In 1911, he sold everything and moved west to Vancouver and later south to California.