Faustin E. Wirkus
Faustin Edmond Wirkus was a PolishAmerican U.S. Marine stationed in Haiti during the United States occupation of Haiti . He was reputedly crowned Faustin II, King of La Gonve, a Haitian island west of Hispaniola, onJuly 1926, and ruled until he was transferred by the United States Marine Corps to the United States mainland in 1929.
According to an official biography, Wirkus was born in 1896 in Rypin, a small town located in eastern Prussia, now in Poland, however, numerous ship passenger lists show his correct birth place as Pittston, Pennsylvania. He and his parents settled in Dupont, Pennsylvania, a coal mining community northwest of WilkesBarre, where he was raised.
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