ID: 4014
Date of birth : 1834
Place of birth : Kjósarsýsla
Date of death : 1908
Jón Gíslason was born in Kjósarsýsla on October 5, 1834. He died on July 14, 1908 in Mountain, N. Dakota. He took the last name Dalmann in the west.
Spouse: 1) Solveig Jónsdóttir b. in Dalasýsla on September 14, 1835. 2) Kristín Sturlaugsdóttir b. April 21, 1859 in Dalasýsla, d. May 19, 1933.
Children: With Solveig: 1. Jakobína b. November 25, 1872, d. in Blaine, Washington on August 30, 1961. 2. Þuríður. Solveig also had a daughter with her first husband, Helga Helgason b. 1860.
Jón emigrated west to Ontario, Canada in 1874 and lived there until 1876 when Solveig came west with Helga and Jakobína. The family settled in New Iceland. They moved west to the Thingvalla Settlement in N. Dakota about 1880.