Researching Leon Clark
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 90013 people with the Clark surname? In that year Clark was ranked number 17 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Leon means "Form of LEONARD. Like A Lion" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Leon Clark on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Leon Clark and the Clark Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 101038 people with the Clark surname in the UK? Clark is now ranked number 27 for popularity in the UK. |
Clark Family History Databases
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Clark Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 701835 people with the Clark surname in the USA? Clark is ranked number 18 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Leon Clark
Leon Pierce Clark
Leon Pierce Clark (sometimes L. Pierce Clark) (1870 – 3 December 1933) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He was the president of the American Psychopathological Association (APPA) during 1923 and 1924.
His pioneering work in psychobiography was published during the last four years of his life and was way ahead of his time. In 1929 Clark published Napoleon: Self-Destroyed, the first book-size psychoanalytic study of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the last year of his life he published Lincoln: A Psycho-biography, another early work in this field. Clark fought some of the heated battles of the American psychiatrists against the American neurologists that were common in the first part of the twentieth century.Clark's reputation suffered when he was found to have plagiarized most of "Napoleon Self-Destroyed." Clark also was criticized for misunderstanding what Freud meant by what Clark referred to as "narcism."
Source: Leon Pierce Clark, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Clark
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