Bishop John Keagy

Spring 1783 moved near to present-day Myersdale, Somerset County.

1810 moved to Montgomery County, Ohio, where he died.

From "History of the Kagi Relationship in America":

In the spring of 1783 John Keagy moved from York County Pa to Bedford County Pa, near where Myersdale City, now in Somerset Co. John Keagy was a Dunkard preacher and held the first Liebensmohl communion meeting west of the Allegheny Mountains. This was in the year 1783. At this time there was only eight to ten families living in that region. John Keagy sought out these families and appointed a day and place of meeting, and a church was organized; the society prospered and multiplied, and the settlement took the name of "Bruderthal" that is "Brother's Valley." Years afterward, when this section was laid out in townships, one of them was named Brothers Valley Township. The society thus began in 1783, has increased and divided, and subdivided, and today numbers nearly thirty distinct organizations of brethren or Dunkards.