George Clayton Faulk, 1876-1886
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Knez, Eugene I. (Eugene Irving), 1916-2010
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content: Eugene Irving Knez papers
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content: Eugene Irving Knez papers / Series 2: SUBJECT FILE
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content: 6 Folders
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content: Box 16
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: First American to learn Korean, Faulk graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1876. He served two cruises on the Asiatic squadron. Upon returning to Korea with members of the first Korean embassy to the United States in 1884, Faulk was assigned as Naval Attache to that country. Faulk was returned to the United States when his position to have Korea maintain its independence ran contrary to Chinese politics, and was unsupported by the United States. Faulk left the navy and went to Japan where he married a Japanese woman and became a businessman. Dissatisfied with what he felt were corrupt business practices, he became a teacher. Faulk was found on a roadside, dead at the age of thirty-six. Files includes copies of Faulk's correspondence and notes on Korean culture and his travels in that country. There are also photographs of Korea and Faulk and a short biography of his life. Photographs are in folder 6.