D. D Deems Charles F., an American clergyman, born in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 4, 1820. He graduated at Dickinson college in 1839, and soon after became agent of the American Bible society for the state of North Carolina. Resigning the agency, he became in 1840 professor of logic and rhetoric in the university of North Carolina, and retained this position five years, after which he was for a year professor of natural science in Randolph Macon college, Virginia. Returning to North Carolina, he was stationed as preacher at New Berne, and in 1846 was chosen delegate to the general conference of the M. E. church south, which met at St. Louis. While here he was appointed president of the Greensboro female college in North Carolina, where he remained five years. From 1854 to 1858 he was in the regular pastorate, and from 1858 to 1865 was presiding elder of the Wilmington and New Berne districts of the North Carolina conference. At the close of 1865 he went to New York, was occupied for a time in journalism, and subsequently engaged in establishing the "Church of the Strangers," of which he is now (1873) the pastor.

Besides many sermons and addresses, he has published several volumes, among which are "The Home Altar," "What Now?" "The Annals of Southern Methodism," and "The Life of Jesus".