![]() ![]() ![]() Location of the island of La Gonâve, west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti At the age of 11, he started sorting coal in Pittston. He and his parents settled in Dupont, Pennsylvania, a coal mining community northwest of Wilkes-Barre, where he was raised. ![]() Customs Service) show his correct birth place as Pittston, Pennsylvania. Early life Īccording to an official biography, Wirkus was born in 1896 in Rypin ( Congress Poland, in the Russian Empire) a small town now in Poland, however, numerous ship passenger lists (records of the U.S. He was reputedly crowned Faustin II, King of La Gonâve, a Haitian island west of Hispaniola, by Queen Ti Memenne of La Gonâve on 18 July 1926, and co-ruled until he was transferred by the United States Marine Corps to the United States mainland in 1929. Marine gunner (after reenlistment in 1939)įaustin Edmond Wirkus ( Haitian Creole: Faustin II Wirkus 16 November 1896 – 8 October 1945) was an American marine stationed in Haiti during the United States occupation of Haiti (1915–1934). Gunnery sergeant (upon original discharge in 1931) ![]()
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