ID: 10880
Date of birth : 1849
Place of birth : Eyjafjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1917
Magnús Jónsson was born in Eyjafjarðarsýsla in 1849. He died in N. Dakota in 1914.
Spouse: 1877 Sigurrósa (Rósa) Guðlaugsdóttir b. in S. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1844.
Children: 1. Jón. They also had a daughter who died as a child.
Magnús and Sigurrósa emigrated on the same ship from Akureyri to Canada. They lived in eastern Canada a few years before moving west to Winnipeg in 1877, where they were married. They tried living in New Iceland for two years but then moved back to Winnipeg. In 1880, they moved south to N. Dakota. They bought land there, 30 km (18.5 miles) southwest of Pembina village, not far from where the town of Glasston is today.