Jakob Gunnlägsson in memoriam # 14976

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1946
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Jakob Gunnlägsson in memoriam.

Published on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the company Jakob Gunnlögsson & Co. A/S.

In Austurland 1.yrg. 1907-1908. 11. tbl. there is a discussion about Jakob Gunnlögsson. It says.

Jakob Gunnlögsson was born in Skagaströnd in Húnavatnssýsla on August 4, 1857. His parents
were Gunnlögur Guttormsson, Guðmundsson, sheriff from Krossavík,
and his wife Margrét Halldórsdóttir, the provost from Melstaður, sister of Daniel
test that was on Hólmur.

At the age of two, Jakob lost his father and moved away shortly after.
with his mother at Stóra-Eyrarland in Eyjafjörður.

At the age of 17, he attacked a shopkeeper at the Granary Society.
Vestdalseyri near Seyðisfjörður, and was in that business for 9 years, but the last
During those years, he spent the winters in Copenhagen at the office of the Grain Society.
there.

In 1883 he became the store manager of the Granary Company in Raufarhöfn,
and held that position until the fall of 1893, when he sailed for
Copenhagen and took on sales agency work for Icelandic merchants.
He has since both bought and sold products for them abroad.
His income has since steadily increased year by year, and he now has some
the largest agency business operating in Iceland.

Jakob Gunnlögsson married a Danish woman in 1883, and it will be a silver wedding anniversary.
of the couple next year if they live.

When Jakob Gunnlögsson was of confirmation age, he would have enjoyed
of the testimony of Jóhannes, named Halldórsson, his maternal uncle, on
Akureyri and learned to write with him; eventually he became, like his cousins
his more, a fine writer. He wrote in such a beautiful and varied hand,
that it can be safely said that no merchant in Iceland will accept him
forth, and he stood on a par with Gröndal and other geniuses in being able to
written beautifully and diversely. While Jakob devoted himself to writing in commercial offices
He was so prolific in all aspects of bookkeeping and
billing that he was familiar with, and was considered perfect in it
a couple of people.

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