ID: 6116
Date of birth : 1877
Place of birth : Skagafjarðarsýsla
Jón Ástvaldur Sigurðsson was born in Skagafjarðarsýsla in 1877.
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He came west across the ocean in 1888 to N. Dakota with his father, Sigurður Jónsson, who came with his wife, Sigríður Benónísdóttir, and Nikulás, Jóns’ brother. They moved west to Calgary in 1889 and then to the Icelandic settlement near Markerville in 1891. Information is needed about Jón Ástvaldur’s life in the west.