ID: 20473
Date of birth : 1883
Jón Gunnarsson Photo: VÍÆ II
Maria Kjær Photo: VÍÆ II
Jón Gunnarsson was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla on September 5, 1883.
Spouse: December 25, 1911 Marie Kjær b. April 3, 1882 in Denmark.
Children: 1. Agnete b. December 25, 1912 2. Gunnar b. May 8, 1916 3. Axel b. May 26, 1916.
Jón went to Denmark in 1906 and studied there first at a folk high school in 1907-08 and then at a commercial school in Aarhus, where he graduated in 1911. He worked in commerce there until 1923, when he went west and settled in Árborg, Manitoba. He lived there the rest of his life.