ID: 19779
Date of birth : 1889
Place of birth : Minnesota
Date of death : 1954
Jón Guðjónsson Photo: Private collection
Jón Guðjónsson was born in Yellow Medicine County in Minnesota on January 2, 1889. He died in Minneota on November 16, 1954. He had the name John Stone in Minnesota.
Unmarried and childless.
Jón was the son of Guðjón Þorsteinsson (John Stone) and Margrét Jónsdóttir, early Icelandic settlers in Swede Prairie Township in Yellow Medicine County in Minnesota. He grew up there and began farming. He moved to Minneota after retiring from farming, where he lived with his brother Marvin and sister Sigríður (Sarah).