Ólafur Björn Bernhöft was born in Hallson, N. Dakota on September 13, 1892.
Spouse: June 15, 1926 Eygerður Jónsdóttir b. December 31, 1895.
Children: 1. Doris Jon b. May 21, 1927 2. Orville b. May 20, 1932 3. Edward Theodore b. June 11, 1934.
Ólafur was the son of Edward L A Bernhöft and Sigurbjörg S Ólafsdóttir in N. Dakota. After completing elementary school, Ólafur went to a trade school in Grand Forks but later studied hairdressing. For three years he did accounting for Björn Þorvaldsson, who ran a car dealership in Cavalier, N. Dakota. Then he took a job with the postal service in the Icelandic settlement in N. Dakota for almost 30 years. Eygerður was the daughter of Jón Gíslason, a farmer in Hallson, and Halldóra Jósefsdóttir, who came west from Akranes in 1888. Eygerður attended trade school in Grand Forks and then worked in accounting and shorthand.