Dougherty, Eckenrode, Flick, Glass, Hertzog, Litzinger, McConnell, McCoy, McDermitt, McGough, McGuire, McMullen, Miller, Myers, Nagle, Noel, O'Neill, Parish, Skelly or 0'Skelly, Smith, Hoover or Huber, Kane, Kean or Cain, Kaylor, Kelly, Little, Stevens, Storm, Sweeney, Weakland and Will. There were twenty-five families by the names of Bradley and McGuire; Dougherty, twenty-two; Eckenrode, twenty-three; Glass, twenty; McConnell, twenty; Myers and Noel, each, twenty-three; and Will, twenty. The aggregate number of families represented is 2143.
MUNSTER.
The Village of Munster is about five miles east of Ebensburg, and was plotted for a town by Edward V. James in 1808. It is said to have been a rival for the county capital, but there is no evidence of that fact. It was an Irish settlement. The town plot was extensive, but it never prospered. The lots were sixty-six feet in frontage and about one hundred and eighty feet in depth, and sold for $16 specie.
It is near the headwaters of the Little Conemaugh river; and one of the streets was named Conemaugh. It was located on the first road made in the county--the Frankstown, or the old Galbreath road, which is noted elsewhere. It had the advantage over Ebensburg, Buela and Loretto at that time, as neither of these localities had a good road east or west. About twenty years after the town was plotted there was an effort to make a new township to be named Donegal, but it caused so much friction the court declined to create it. Some of the freeholders were John O'Gara, Hugh McWilliamson, Hugh Gara, Moses Noon, Michael Burns, William Manly, Edward Smith, John Nickson, Patrick Dawson, Dennis Lynch, John Rhey, John Miller, Philip Noon, John D. Kerney, Jacob Glass, John Curren, Peter Storm, Bartholomew Kearney, Cornelius Freel, Joseph McGeehan, James Kean, James O'Kean and John Boyle. The descendents of Kearney and the Glass and other families still reside in that vicinity. However, there were few houses erected. The village is on the crest and western slope of the divide.
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