Item Detail
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26043
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English
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Loftur Jónsson : A Mormon Icelandic Pillar of Strength
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Mormon Historical Studies
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Fall 2013
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14
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2
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Sandy, UT
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Mormon Historic Sites Foundation
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123-140
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A biography is presented of Loftur Jonsson, a Mormon convert and missionary. He was born on July 20, 1814, in Butra, Teigur, Iceland and worked in the fishing trade. He married widow Gudrun Hallsdottir in 1836 after she employed him to manage her estate. They converted to the Mormon faith in 1851and emigrated to the U.S. in 1857. Following his wife's death, he returned to Iceland in 1873 as a missionary, where he married Halldora Arnadottir. He died in 1874 shortly after his return to the U.S.
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