Ólafur Guðmundsson Goodman, Photo: Almanak 1912
Ólafur Guðmundsson was born in N. Þingeyjarsýsla in 1854. He died in Alberta in 1894. He took the last name Goodman in the west.
Spouse: Konkordía Sófóníasdóttir b. 1864 in N. Þingeyjarsýsla.
Children: 1. Hólmfríður Anna 2. Jónína Laufey 3. Zóphonía. They had another daughter who died in her first year. She would have been born before Zóphonía since they have the same name.
Ólafur came west in 1876 while Konkordía came west with her mother, Hólmfríður Jónsdóttir, in 1883. Ólafur took land near Grafton, N. Dakota and tried wheat farming. He was unlucky and sought other advice, moving west to Alberta and doing various jobs in Calgary. He was the first Icelander to settle there and was helpful to his countrymen in N. Dakota when they ventured west on the Canadian Plains around 1888. He stayed in Calgary for six years but then settled in the Icelandic settlement north of the Red Deer River where he drowned a few years later. Konkordía lived on their land but in 1906 she moved to Red Deer with her daughters.