Calmoutier was an early French Catholic farming community founded in 1832 by Claude Druhot, who came from Calmoutier, Hte-Saône, France. Its first native, the four-month-old Claude Joseph Druhot, was baptized on 9 June 1833 by Fr. John Henni, who resided at St. John's in Canton and in 1854 became Milwaukee's first bishop. In 1836 Fr. John Alleman, O.P., established St. Genevieve's Mission on land donated by the Pierson and Roussel families, and the log chapel built there, the first of four churches on the site, predated any Catholic church building in Cleveland, Akron, and Toledo. Fr. Stephen Badin, the first Catholic priest ordained in America by Bishop John Carroll in 1793, frequented St. Genevieve's from 1835-1837; he was Missionary Apostolic and Pastor of the Potawatomi Indians, Vicar-General of Bardstown and Apostle of Kentucky, and Vicar-General of Cincinnati. In 1841 he deeded the site of Notre Dame University, where he is buried, to its founder Fr. Edward Sorin, C.S.C. Between 1839 and 1841, the missionary Fr. Jean Baptiste Lamy came from Danville in nearby Knox County, and in 1853 he became the first Bishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Portrayed as Bishop Latour in Willa Cather's fictionalized novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and as the hero of Paul Horgan's historical work Lamy of Santa Fe, he was also highly esteemed by the famous Kit Carson, a convert who scouted for him.