ID: 19354
Date of birth : 1868
Place of birth : Ísland
Jón Einarsson was born in Iceland in 1868.
Spouse: Steinvör Sveinsdóttir? b. in Iceland in 1856.
Children: 1. Hallur b. June 8, 1886 2. Jón Gísli b. 1890 3. Einar Sigurður b. January 14, 1892 4. Ingiríður b. 1893 5. Eggert H. b. 1895 6. Lilja b. 1897 7. Ólafur b. 1903.
Little is written about their origins in Iceland, but a source says that Jón first lived in Minnesota, where his brother, Sigurður, was born in the autumn of 1882. Steinvör is said to have come to the United States in 1884. In the census in 1900, Jón and Steinvör live in Beaulieu, N. Dakota and are registered at their home with Jón’s brother Sigurður and Oddur Sveinsson, Steinvör’s brother.