groups of Americans of Scandinavian descent, most Danes in America are Lutherans. Lutheran pioneer minister, Claus Lauritz Clausen, the first president of the Norwegian-Danish Lutheran Conference, traveled to Denmark and influenced religious leaders to send pastors to America. The oldest Danish Lutheran congregation is Emmaus Lutheran Church in Racine, Wisconsin, founded August 22, 1851. Nearby Kenosha is home to the second oldest Danish Lutheran congregation, St. Mary's Lutheran Church, which is the largest congregation in the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. In addition, a large number of Danish Americans belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Between 1849 and 1904, some 17,000 Danish Mormons and their children made the journey to the Church's settlements in Utah, making Danes second only to the British in number of foreigners recruited by the church to the state. Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin have the largest concentrations of non-Mormon Danish Americans. The states with the largest Mormon Danish American populations are Utah and Idaho—and in the case of Idaho, particularly the southeastern part of the state. Smaller but significant numbers of Danish Americans have also become Methodists, Baptists, Roman Catholics, and Seventh-day Adventists. Danish American communities Two cities, Chicago and Racine, Wisconsin, claim to be the home to the largest group of Danish Americans in the United States. Racine, 25 miles south of Milwaukee has the largest concentration of city dwellers with Danish origin. A number of other communities were founded by Danish Americans or have a large Danish American community, including: Ames, Iowa Askov, Minnesota Blair, Nebraska Boston, Massachusetts Bowbells, North Dakota Brush, Colorado Buffalo, Wyoming Cedar Fort, Utah Dagmar, Montana Dania, Florida Danevang, Texas Daneville, North Dakota Dannebrog, Nebraska Denmark, Kansas Denmark, Maine Denmark, Wisconsin Donnybrook, North Dakota Duluth, Minnesota Elk Horn, Iowa Elsinore, Utah Ephraim, Utah Exira, Iowa Fertile Valley, North Dakota Flaxton, North Dakota Fountain Green, Utah Greenville, Michigan Hampton, Iowa Hartford, Connecticut Jamestown, Kansas Kenaston, North Dakota Kenmare, North Dakota Kenosha, Wisconsin Kimballton, Iowa Luck, Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin Manti, Utah Milwaukee, Wisconsin Minneapolis, Minnesota Moroni, Utah Mount Pleasant, Utah Nysted, Nebraska Omaha, Nebraska (see Danes in Omaha, Nebraska) Payson, Utah Perth Amboy, New Jersey Seattle, Washington Solvang, California South Portland, Maine Spring City, Utah Tyler, Minnesota Viborg, South Dakota Washington Island, Wisconsin Waupaca, Wisconsin Westby, Montana Additionally, Danish Americans helped settle three U.S. counties: Montcalm, Michigan; St. Louis, Minnesota; and Sanpete,