"A Man Named Clarke 1831" is a fictional story based upon an actual event, that happened to a family living in Ithaca, NY in 1831. The story here touches on an event that occurred and caused shock to much of Central New York. The event had caused such a disturbance that about 20,000 people came to Ithaca, a town of only 3,000 to see the happenings. There is so much to this story it had to be split into two parts, Volume 1 and Volume 2. Grab a cup of coffee, sit back, relax, and get ready to jump back to 1831 and experience the adventure with John Taylor as he unravels the story of Clark, a veteran of the War of 1812, the one they called "The Monster of Ithaca."