At is peak the Young Ladies' Seminary of Beniciain had 149 students from all over Northern California.

Young Ladies' Seminary of Beniciain was the Protestant Christian Junior college of its day.

Mills College moved to Oakland, California in July 1871 by train, students, teacher and supplies.

[6] Pope improved the building and continued the Young Ladies' Seminary at the site, becoming the Principal.

[9][10][11] At College of California, he founded The Pacific 55, the first religious paper on the west coast.

Samuel Weyler (1863–1898) was the founded of The Classical Academy, that became Benicia High School, in the church's Social Hall.

Samuel Weyler was a Russian Orthodox Jew, born Russia on July 3, 1863.

Weyler was working at a store in Kischineff, in southern Russia and became friends with Pastor Faltin, a Russian Orthodox priest and became a Christian.

Weyler moved to Wurtemberg, Germany and then to the United States though Ellis Island on July 13, 1882.

He worked as a salesman and then attended Chicago Theological Seminary then Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois in 1885.

Weyler became a missionary at Pueblo, Colorado and a pastor of Congregational Church in Denver on March 1, 1892.

The First Congregational Church of Benicia chartered on June 5, 1866, after the seventeen members votes on the Articles of Faith and Covenant.

The church building was completed on December 10, 1868, at debt free cost $6,800 at 35 West J.