Árni Hallgrímsson was born on July 25, 1870 in Eyjafjarðarsýsla. He died in the Brown Settlement in Manitoba in 1955. He took the last name Helgason in the west.
Spouse: December 16, 1892 Elísabet Sigfúsdóttir b. in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1871, d. in Manitoba in 1930.
Children: 1. Leonard b. in Garðar, N. Dakota, September 25, 1893 2. Elis b. in Garðar, January 26, 1895 3. Jón Sigfús b. in Garðar, November 22, 1898 4. Kristbjörg b. in Brown Settlement, January 3, 1905 5. Hallgrímur Helgi b. November 9, 1905 6. Þórunn Valgerður b. July 14, 1907.
Árni came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1878 with his foster parents, Árni Þorleifsson and Elísabet Jónasdóttir. They settled in N. Dakota. Árni’s parents, Hallgrímur Helgason and Kristbjörg Árnadóttir, emigrated west in 1889. Árni and Elísabet moved to the Brown Settlement in southern Manitoba in 1900.