ID: 20141
Date of birth : 1861
Date of death : 1895
Þorkell Ólafur Sigurðsson was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla on April 30, 1861. He died on December 27, 1895 in Park River, N. Dakota.
Unmarried and childless.
Þorkell grew up in Skagafjörður, prepared for school with Reverend Þorkell Bjarnason, a priest in Reynivellir and stayed there for a few years. He enrolled in the Latin school in Reykjavík and was sponsored by his namesake Reverend Þorkell, where he stayed for four years. From there he went to seminary in Philadelphia and there he received a call from Argyle in Manitoba. He accepted it, then went to N. Dakota where he was ordained in a synod in 1895 at Park River. His health was not good and he died shortly before the turn of the century and was buried in Garðar on January 3, 1896.