Þorsteinn Guðmundsson Photo: VÍÆ III
Þorsteinn Guðmundsson was born in Borgarfjarðarsýsla on February 29, 1884. He was known as Þorsteinn G. Goodman in the west.
Spouse: November 22, 1926 in Seattle, Elín Bjarnadóttir b. November 20, 1903 in Winnipeg.
Child: 1. Guðrún Hope b. in Seattle on October 16, 1927.
Þorsteinn came to the West in 1900 with his parents, Guðmundur Torfason and Guðrún Þorsteinsdóttir. They settled in the Shoal Lake Settlement (Grunnvatnsbyggð) in Manitoba where Þorsteinn lived until 1920. He moved to Winnipeg but then moved west to Seattle, Washington in 1924. He lived there until 1930, then moved south to Los Angeles and lived there until 1956. After that he lived in Belmont, California. Þorsteinn studied carpentry but worked more on machine repairs. During his years in Winnipeg, he studied the organ and was an organist and choir director in churches in Seattle and Los Angeles. Elín was the daughter of Bjarni Guðmundsson and Ingibjörg Jónsdóttir, who came west at the turn of the century.