Vilhelmína Lever

[3] She bought a plot of land in Akureyri in 1834, built a small house and opened a shop in 1835.

[2] After spending a few years in Krossanes, she returned to Akureyri in 1852 to run a shop combined with a restaurant.

She ran it for years, gaining the nickname "Vertshús-Mína" or Tavern-Mina.

[2] New regulations in Danish stated that the town council could be elected by "alle fuldmyndige Mænd" (all men who have reached their majority) who had lived in the town for two years and paid municipal dues.

Assuming "mænd" meant all people (as in Icelandic) and not just men, Vilhelmína voted in the municipal elections in both 1863 and 1866.