Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser
Neisser was born in the Silesian town of Schweidnitz (now Świdnica, in Poland), the son of a well-known Jewish physician, Dr. Moritz Neisser. After he completed the elementary school in Münsterberg, Neisser enrolled in the St. Maria Magdalena School in Breslau (now Wrocław, in Poland). In this school, he was a contemporary of another great name in the history of medicine, Paul Ehrlich. He obtained the Abitur in 1872.
Albert S. Nicholson
Albert S. Nicholson was born in Salem Corners, Wayne County, Pennsylvania in 1829. At 21 he left his farm home and taught school for some time in Ohio. From childhood, he had a desire to enter the ministry and while living in the family of Dr. Van Ingen in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was induced by Dr. Van Ingen to enter the theological seminary Nashotah House. Although he had already been baptized, he insisted on the rite being repeated by immersion in one of the lakes of Nashotah, Wisconsin by Bishop Jackson Kemper.
He graduated from the seminary in 1860, received deacon's orders and immediately took charge of Christ Episcopal Church, Delavan, Wisconsin. He seems always to have had the urge for teaching and in the autumn of 1861, opened a school in Delavan. In this year he was ordained an Episcopal priest and in 1862 was married to Mary Elvira Warner, a native of Michigan.
In 1863, Rev. and Mrs. Nicholson went westward across the plains and settled in Stockton, California, where Nicholson opened a school. Their son Lawson was born in 1866.
In 1867, Nicholson became rector of Christ Church, Napa, California, now called St. Mary's Episcopal Church.