ID: 1965
Date of birth : 1865
Place of birth : Borgarfjarðarsýsla
Jón Sæmundsson was born in Borgarfjarðarsýsla in 1865. He took the last name Borgfjord in the west.
Spouse: Árnína Árnadóttir b. 1875 in Hnappadalssýsla.
Children: 1. Helgi 2. Jón 3. Ingibjörg.
Jón came west to Winnipegin 1886 with his parents, Sæmundur Jónsson and Helga Gísladóttir. He was in Duluth, Minnesota a number of years, then moved to Manitoba, and in 1910 he took land in Árnes in New Iceland. He moved from there to Selkirk 1920. Árnína came west to Winnipeg in 1887 with her parents, Árni Jónsson and Valdís Þorgeirsdóttir. She was in Duluth, Minnesota about the turn of the century and there she married Jón.