Pictured: The First Congregational Church was built in 1868. It is located on West J Street in Benicia. It lost its steeple in 1923 due to a lightning strike. The steeple was never rebuilt. A new church was built on West Second Street and this building became a private residence.
Dr. James J. Hogan was born in Vallejo in 1872. He received a medical degree from Cooper Medical College in San Francisco and established a physician practice in Vallejo in 1892. He opened Vallejo's first hospital in 1912 at the corner of Virginia Street and Sonoma Boulevard. He died in Vallejo in 1942. Photo courtesy of Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.