C ONGESTIVE FEVER . An early term for malaria. Malaria is a life-threatening disease, typically transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito, the primary vector of the disease because it carries the Plasmodium parasite. Symptoms include high fever, shaking chills, and sweating. The disease is predominant in developing countries with warm climates. Also known as marsh or swamp fever. C ONNOR , F LETCHER W . (c.1822–1870) also known as Wesley F. Connor. He was 3 or 4 years old when his parents moved to Mount Ariel. He probably entered Mount Ariel male academy in 1827, and most likely continued studies at the Methodist preparatory school there. He was 14 when his father died. He possibly learned chemistry from his brother, George, who was a medical student in Charleston. Fletcher, a self-taught photographer, created daguerreotypes and later ambrotypes. It is conceivable that his repeated exposure to mercury and iodine with daguerreotypes may have led to his disability discharge after less than 3 months of Civil War military service, and to his early death. C ONSUMPTION . A former name for tuberculosis (TB). Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria typically attacks the lungs. Symptoms include fatigue, night sweats, persistent coughing-up of thick white phlegm, (sometimes blood), and a general “wasting away” or “consuming” of the body. In the 19th/early 20th centuries, TB was the leading cause of death in the U.S. D UE W EST , S OUTH C AROLINA is in Abbeville County, in the Waterfalls and Whitewater region, about 5 miles west of Greenville Presbyterian Church, which is in Greenwood County. According to the Due West Marker: “As early as 1765 the site 6 miles NW known to the Indians as Yellow Water, where the Keowee Path crossed the Cherokee line, was called DeWitt's Corner. In 1777 a treaty between S.C. and the Cherokee Indians was signed there. The present town was first called Due West Corner.” This small town is home to the only Associate Reformed Presbyterian Seminary in the United States, Erskine College. E MORY & H ENRY C OLLEGE , Emory , Virginia . Founded in 1836 by Methodist minister Creed Fulton; Colonel William Byars; Methodist farmer Tobias Smyth; and Methodist businessman Alexander Findlay. It was named for Methodist bishop, John Emory (1789–1835), and patriot and Virginia’s first governor, Patrick Henry (1736–1799). It remains affiliated with The United Methodist Church. E PILEPSY / E PILEPTIC . Chronic, recurrent, unprovoked seizures that affect people of all ages. Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disorder and has a wide range of seizure types. Seizures may be related to brain injury, infectious disease or family tendency but often the cause is unknown. In the 18th and 19th centuries, epilepsy was thought to be a mental illness and epileptics routinely were confined to insane asylums. G REENVILLE P RESBYTERIAN C HURCH , Donalds , Greenwood County , South Carolina . Regular religious services and social gatherings were held on this site since 1773. The current church is brick, built in Greek Revival style in 1852 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The property also includes a small brick Session House, a natural spring and a large historic cemetery whose grave markers church members have carefully researched. G REENWOOD A SSOCIATION . Formally, Greenwood Association for the Promotion of Education, formed in 1835 to operate new schools, for boys and girls, in Greenwood using in part money left over from a failed school in another village. The students attended classes in a new building that was situated slightly northeast of where Brewer Middle School used to be
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