The site of the First Congregational Church building is a California Historical Landmark, No.

The attendees at the founding were mostly Swiss and German settlers of Sutter's Fort and New Helvetia.

He arrived at San Francisco in 1849 on the ship Edward Everett, then moved to Sacramento as an early California pioneer.

He moved back to San Francisco in 1864 to pastor a church from 1863 to 1869.

He worked at Pacific Theological Seminary as a senior professor of Biblical literature from 1869 to 1892.