ID: 10120
Date of birth : 1830
Place of birth : N. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1909
Björn Árnason was born in 1830 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla. He died in the Árnes Settlement in 1909.
Spouse: Guðrún Guðmundsdóttir b. in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1827, d. in Winnipeg in 1904.
Children: 1. Guðmundur b. 1858 2. Árni b. 1862 3. Jóhanna b. 1865 4. Stefán b. 1869.
They went west to Ontario, Canada in 1874 and settled in Kinmount. They travelled west to Winnipeg, Manitoba where they lived the first years. Björn was one of the first settlers in the Akra Settlement in N. Dakota in 1882 in Sandy Hills north of the Tongue River.