Charles F. Deems

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1842–1848 Charles F. Deems joins the UNC faculty President David L. Swain brought Deems, a young Methodist preacher, onto the faculty in 1842 as adjunct professor of rhetoric and logic, to have a Methodist among the professors. He resigned in 1848 for Randolph-Macon College. People: David L. SwainSearch the index · NCpedia: Deems, Charles Force
2. 1840s Charles F. Deems preaches to Chapel Hill Methodists in the hall he names Bethesda While a professor, Deems preached to the village Methodists, at their invitation, in the upper story of Jesse Hargrave's store, a former Masonic lodge room he named Bethesda. After he left the university in 1848, ministers were regularly appointed to the Chapel Hill charge.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, Volume I
3. July 1853 Chapel Hill's Methodists dedicate their first church In July 1853 the Methodist congregation that became University Methodist Church dedicated its first building, at Rosemary and Henderson streets, paid for with about $5,000 that its pastor J. Milton Frost had raised around the state. The congregation had met since about 1840, with Charles F. Deems preaching in the 1840s and Frost stationed there from January 1851. People: Charles F. DeemsSearch the index · University United Methodist Church, Chapel Hill: History
4. June 1877 Charles F. Deems preaches the commencement sermon and receives an honorary degree At the 1877 commencement, Deems, then pastor of the Church of the Strangers in New York, preached the baccalaureate sermon, and the university conferred on him the honorary Doctor of Laws.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, Volume II
5. December 20, 1879 Charles F. Deems starts the Deems Fund for student loans Deems sent the university $300 to begin a fund lending both principal and interest to students on security, in memory of his son Theodore Disosway Deems, who was born in Chapel Hill and killed at Gettysburg. William H. Vanderbilt later added $10,000 through him.Search the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, Volume II