ID: 12610
Date of birth : 1855
Magnús Jónsson was born on July 24, 1855 in N. Múlasýsla.
Spouse: Steinunn, further information missing
Children: 1. Þóra Oktavía b. 1892.
Magnús came west in 1879 with his parents, Jón Sveinsson and Solveig Magnúsdóttir, who settled in Lincoln County in Minnesota. In the 1880 census, he lives with his sister Elísabet and Einar Sigurðsson, who later became her husband, but in 1895 he is a registered farmer and a married man in Alta Vista Township in Lincoln County.