ID: 19601
Date of birth : 1859
Place of birth : Borgarfjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1949
Kristján Gunnarsson was born in Borgarfjarðarsýsla on July 17, 1858. He died in Minnesota on May 18, 1949. He took the name Chris Gunderson in the west.
Spouse: Margrét Guðmundsdóttir b. February 9, 1859, d. August 19, 1916 in Duluth, Minnesota.
Children: 1. Kristín (Christine) b. 1887, d. of the Spanish flu in 1918 2. Hjálmar b. 1889 3. Björn (Byron) Guðbrandur b. July 13, 1891 in Duluth 4. Leon Einar b. August 17, 1893 in Duluth.
They came to the West in 1887 and settled in Duluth, Minnesota in 1891. Kristján had a dairy farm there and was registered at 6403 Wadena St. in the Census of 1895. In the Census of 1910 he is registered as a merchant but in 1930 he lived with his son Björn in Hermantown, now a suburb of Duluth.