Jean Mathieson Defrees

Notes:

Birth:
Name: Jean Matthison De Frees
Birth Date: 28 Dec 1916
Birthplace: Chicago
Gender: Female
Father's Name: Donald De Frees
Father's Age: 32
Mother's Name: Florence Baker
Mother's Age: 26


Died:
Name: Jean Moore
State of Issue: Illinois
Date of Birth: Thursday December 28, 1916
Date of Death: March 1978
Est. Age at Death: 61 years, 2 months
Location of Last Benefit Paid:
City: Palm Desert
County: Riverside
State: California

MOORE JEAN KELLOGG 12/28/1916 F ILLINOIS RIVERSIDE 03/12/1978

Family/Spouse: Moore. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jean married James Hull Kellogg on 4 Nov 1939 in Winnetka, Cook, Illinois, USA. James (son of James Gifford Kellogg and Pauline Hull) was born on 4 Dec 1912 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; died on 15 Feb 1967 in Santa Barbara, California, USA; was buried in Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Frances Dewolf Kellogg
2. James Mcnaughton Kellogg

Other Events:

• Occupation: lawyer

Notes:

Died:
Name: Donald Defrees
State of Issue: Illinois
Date of Birth: Wednesday February 25, 1885
Date of Death: October 1968
Est. Age at Death: 83 years, 7 months
Last known residence:
City: Chicago; Fort Dearborn
County: Cook
State: Illinois

Donald married Florence Baker on 18 Dec 1915 in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, USA. Florence (daughter of Francis Elisha Baker and May Irwin) was born on 12 Apr 1890 in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, USA; died in Jan 1980 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Name: Florence Defrees
State of Issue: Illinois
Date of Birth: Saturday April 12, 1890
Date of Death: January 1980
Est. Age at Death: 89 years, 9 months
Location of Last Benefit Paid:
City: Chicago
County: Cook
State: Illinois

Notes:

Married:
Groom's Name: Donald Defrees
Groom's Birth Date: 25 Feb 1885
Groom's Birthplace: Chicago, Ill.
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Florence Baker
Bride's Birth Date: 12 Apr 1890
Bride's Birthplace: Goshen, Ind.
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 18 Dec 1915
Marriage Place: Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana
Groom's Father's Name: Joseph H Defrees
Groom's Mother's Name: Harriet Mc Naughton
Bride's Father's Name: Francis C Baker
Bride's Mother's Name: May Irwins
Groom's Race: White
Groom's Marital Status: Single
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race: White
Bride's Marital Status: Single

1920 census USA
Chicago City Ward 21, Cook, Illinois
SELF Donald De Frees M 34y Illinois
WIFE Florence De Frees F 28y Indiana
DAU Jean De Frees F 3y Illinois

1930 census USA
New Trier, Cook, Illinois
Head Donald Defrees M 45 Illinois
Wife Florence Defrees F 39 Indiana
Daughter Jean Defrees F 13 Illinois
Servant Fildor Peterson F 32 Illinois
Servant Leonard E Holliday M 28 Illinois
Servant Augusta Larson F 51 Sweden
Servant Emily Seaquist F 48 Sweden

1940 census USA
New Trier, Cook, Illinois
Thom Tree Land
Defrees Donald 55 Illinois
Defrees Florence B 50 Indiana
Larson Augusta 62 ervant
Johnson Ingeborn 49 servant
Nelson Anna 37 servant

Notes:

A standard history of Elkhart County, Indiana : an authentic narrative of the past, with particular attention to the modern era in the commercial, industrial, educational, civic and social development (1916)

Joseph Holton Defrees. Among the native sons of Elkhart County whose careers have been largely identified with other communities, is Joseph Holton Defrees, who for more than a quarter of a century has been identified with the Chicago bar, and has long been recognized as one of the foremost lawyers and business men of that city. Mr. Defrees served twice as president of the Chicago Bar Association, was vice president of the Illinois State Bar Association, was the first lawyer to be elected president of the Chicago Association of Commerce, and is at this writing serving as chairman of the executive committee and vice president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.

Joseph Holton Defrees was born at Goshen April 10, 1858, and is a son of James McKinney and Victoria (Holton) Defrees. His father was born in South Bend, Indiana, in 1833 and died in 1859, at the age of twenty-six, while the mother was born in Kentucky in 1839 and died in 1865, also at the age of twenty-six. Joseph H. Defrees never knew his father and he was only seven years of age when he lost his mother. He was an only child. His father, James Defrees, graduated at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, and was educated in the law in what is now the law department of Harvard University. He located for practice at Goshen and was serving as prosecuting attorney of Elkhart County at the time of his death. He was also one of the founders of the Goshen Times.
In politics he was first a whig and later a republican.

The grandparents of Mr. Defrees were Joseph Hutton and Mary (McKinney) Defrees, and his grandfather was identified very closely with the pioneer history of Northern Indiana.

The early members of this family were of French Huguenot origin, and the first ancestors emigrated from Holland to New York. From one of the brothers who came to this country the present family line is descended. The grandfather of Joseph Hutton Defrees, the great grandfather of the Chicago lawyer, was born and reared in New York. When about twelve years of age he went to Trenton, New Jersey, and later to Philadelphia, where he served an apprenticeship as a carpenter. During the Revolutionary war he took service as carpenter on board a ship sailing between Philadelphia and Cuba and remained in that service nearly the entire seven years of war. He was three times made a prisoner of war and suffered much during his confinement on the notorious prison ship Jersey. He had many adventures as a sailor during the war, and at one time had a considerable fortune in prize money, but the ship and cargo in which he invested it was lost and he retired from the sea to take up steady work at his trade. He remained in Philadelphia until the fall of 1786, and then moved to Virginia and bought a farm in Rockbridge County. After living there about twenty years he sold out and came to Ohio in October, 181 1. He settled near Piqua, and died there in August, 1826, when about seventy-three years of age. In his family were the following children : John, James, Anna, Joseph, Anthony, Rebecca, Archibald, Mary, Anna. Elizabeth, Rebecca and Thomas Jefferson, twelve in all.

James Defrees, a son of this Revolutionary character, served an apprenticeship in the business of hat maker, worked as a journeyman at the trade, and in Tennessee married Miss Margaret Dougherty. For several years they lived at Sparta, Tennessee. From there he moved to Piqua, Ohio, carried on business as a hatter, and at one time was postmaster of the town. By his first wife James Defrees had nine children : John D., Joseph Hutton, Harriet, James, Anthony, Mary, William, Margaret and Caroline. By a second marriage he had four other children.

Among the former children John and Joseph were especially conspicuous in Northern Indiana. Joseph was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Both John and Joseph served a time at the printing business in the Gazette office at Piqua and they then took by ox team and wagon the first printing press ever taken west of Detroit and, at South Bend, Indiana, began the publication of the New Pioneer, which was the first paper issued west of Detroit. It afterwards became the South Bend Register and was issued as such for a number of years. Schuyler Colfax learned the printer's trade on that paper, and subsequently bought the plant and was editor of the paper while he was in congress. John D. Defrees subsequently went to Indianapolis and edited the State Journal a number of years. While thus engaged and afterward he served as public printer several times during the administration of Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, Grant and Hayes.

After his experience in the pioneer newspaper at South Bend, Joseph Hutton Defrees went to Goshen and became a merchant and banker. During the reconstruction period after the Civil war he was a member of congress from Indiana.

It was in the home of his grandfather, Joseph Hutton Defrees, that the Chicago lawyer was reared after the death of his parents. He was educated in the public schools, attended Earlham College at Richmond. Indiana, and completed his education in Northwestern University. He was admitted to the bar at Goshen in 1879 and shortly afterward became a member of the firm of Baker, Defrees & Baker at Goshen. The senior member of this firm was the venerable John H. Baker, one of Elkhart County's most eminent men and for a number of years a federal judge. The junior member was his son, Francis E. Baker, who is now the presiding judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the seventh judicial In 1888 Mr. Defrees left Goshen and went to Chicago. He became a member of the firm of Shuman & Defrees, and in 1892 became a member of the firm of Aldrich, Payne & Defrees, which subsequently became Defrees, Brace & Ritter, and still later Defrees, Buckingham, Ritter & Campbell. He is now senior member of the firm of Defrees, Buckingham & Eaton, and most of his practice is in corporation law.

Mr. Defrees has well been characterized as "a business man by nature, a lawyer by profession, and by instinct a keen judge of men and affairs," and with these qualifications it is only natural he has won himself an unusual place in the world of business. Though he has gained almost equal distinction in both his profession and in business, it is significant that he has received some of the highest honors from organizations of lawyers and business men in Chicago. It is his distinction that he is the only man who has ever held the presidency of the Chicago Bar Association two terms in succession. Then in 1914 the Chicago Association of Commerce for the first time elected a lawyer as its president, and this choice was due to the fact that the members of the commerce association considered Mr. Defrees an unusually capable business man.

The career of Mr. Defrees is a competent illustration of a tendency which was observed by Hon. James Bryce, who in seeking to distinguish between the American bar and the English bar found that American lawyers were to an increasing extent becoming identified with business affairs. Thus it is that Mr. Defrees is a lawyer many of whose associations have been with business affairs and with business men, both as a director and adviser in many business organizations.

Mr. Defrees was the first president of the Indiana Society of Chicago and succeeded himself for a second term in that office. It was in 1909-11 that he served his two terms as president of the Chicago Bar Association, and in 1914 was elected president of the Chicago Association of Commerce. He is a member of the Chicago Club, the Union League Club, the Mid-Day Club, the South Shore Country Club, the City Club, the Chicago Literary Club, the Onwentsia Country Club and the Hamilton Club. He was one of the founders of the Hamilton Club. He also belongs to the Bankers Club of America in New York City, and to the Illinois, the Chicago and the American Bar Associations. He has also served as vice president of the Civic Federation of Chicago. In the Chicago Association of Commerce he was a member of a number of important committees in the years preceding his service as president of the association. On October 4, 1882. at Buffalo, New York, Mr. Defrees married Miss Harriet McNaughton, daughter of Daniel McNaughton. Mr. Defrees and wife have one son, Donald, who graduated from Yale University and the Harvard Law School and is now a member of the firm of Defrees, Buckingham & Eaton in Chicago.

Something of his personal characteristics is given in a magazine article which described Mr. Defrees' business record a year or so ago : "He is not an exceptionally large man, but with eyes like his a man does not need physical bulk to hold attention. Set under a good forehead, these eyes are liable to hold you so closely that you overlook the determined turn to the mouth and the foresight indicated by the drawn back ears. He receives you kindly, waits to get your side of the story and then if need be carries his point in a manner carefully planned to avoid hurting your feelings more than is absolutely necessary. He uses words as a surgeon does a scalpel. Friends he has by the host of course - he likes to help the young fellows, and the other night scores of them joined with men as old as their fathers to serenade him on the anniversary of his birth. Travel is his recreation."

Joseph married Harriet Ruth McNaughton on 4 Oct 1882 in Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA. Harriet (daughter of Daniel McNaughton and Pamela E. Barton) was born on 20 Feb 1862 in Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA; died on 22 Mar 1943 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
name: Harriet Mcnaughton Defrees
death date: 22 Mar 1943
death place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
gender: Female
age: 82
estimated birth year: 1861
father: Daniel Mcnaughton
mother: Pamela Barton
spouse: Joseph H. Defrees

Notes:

Married:
1900 census USA
Illinois Cook ED 1041 Precinct 1-2 Hyde...ship Chicago city Ward 33
McNaughton Pamela E. boarder widow born March 1832 Pennsylvania 2 children of which 2 alive
Defrees Joseph H. boarder born April 1858 Indiana married 17 years 1 child of which 1 alive
Defrees Harriet M boarder born Feb 1861 New York married 17 years 1 child of which 1 alive
Defrees Donald boarder born Feb 1885 Illinois

1910 census USA
Chicago Ward 7, Cook, Illinois
Joseph H Defrees M 52y Indiana
Harriet M Defrees F 48y New York
Donald Defrees M 25y Illinois

Notes:

Francis Elisha Baker (1860-1924) - of Goshen, Elkhart County, Ind. Born in Goshen, Elkhart County, Ind., October 20, 1860. Son of John Harris Baker and Harriet (Defrees) Baker. Lawyer; justice of Indiana state supreme court, 1899-1902; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, 1902-24; died in office 1924. Member, Phi Beta Kappa. Died, from endocarditis, March 15, 1924 (age 63 years, 147 days). Interment somewhere.

Relatives: Son of John Harris Baker and Harriet (Defrees) Baker; married, February 21, 1888, to May Irwin.


Died:
name: Francis E. Baker
death date: 15 Mar 1924
death place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
gender: Male
age: 63
estimated birth year: 1861
birth date: 20 Oct 1860
birthplace: Goshen, Indiana
father: John H. Baker
father's birth place: Sussex, New York
mother: Harriett Defrees
mother's birth place: Goshen, Indiana
occupation: Judge Supreme Court
residence: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois Windemere Hotel
spouse: May Irwin Baker
burial date: 19 Mar 1924
burial place: Goshen, Indiana

Francis married May Irwin on 21 Feb 1888 in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, USA. May was born in Apr 1862 in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John W Irwin d 1898, lived in Goshen, Elkhart Co IN. He was a financier and business manager. He belonged to "one of the very first families to make settlement withtin the county."
Alexander Irwin married Miss Elizabeth McConnell in Franklin Co IN and they had several children. After Elizabeth died, Alexander married Mrs. Elizabeth Daily (nee Wycoff) who became the mother of John W Irwin (John was one of 5 children of this second marriage). In 1832 Alexander & family settled on Elkhart Prairie (the Goshen settlement) in Elkhart Co IN. Three years later Alexander died (malarial fever).
John W Irwin b 24 Sept 1822 near Pittsburgh PA; spent 2 years in the State University at Bloomington. Began practicing law in 1849 in Goshen. John Irwin was also a banker (Salem Bank) and was active in raising troops for the Union during the Civil War and the bio goes into some detail regarding his career and other activities. On 11 Oct 1855, Mr. Irwin md Miss Hager Jackson (d/o Elkhart co pioneer, Colonel John Jackson). The Irwin's had 2 children Frank J and May (w/o Hon. Francis E Baker, judge of U S Circuit Court).


1880 census USA
Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana

Notes:

Married:
groom's name: Francis E. Baker
bride's name: May Irwin
marriage date: 21 Feb 1888
marriage place: Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana

1900 census USA
ED 104 Center Township, Precincts 10-11 Indianapolis city Ward 7, Marion, Indiana, United States
Boarder Francis E Baker M 40 Indiana
Wife May I Baker F 38 Indiana
Daughter Florence Baker F 10 Indiana
Son John M Baker M 19 Indiana
Son Lucian Baker M 5 Indiana


1910 census USA
Goshen Ward 4, Elkhart, Indiana
SELF Francis E Baker M 49y Indiana
WIFE May E Baker F 49y Indiana
DAU Florence Baker F 19y Indiana
SON John M Baker M 18y Indiana
DAU Frances Baker F 8y Indiana

1920 census
Elkhart, Indiana
SELF Frances E Baker M 59y Indiana
WIFE May I Baker F 57y Indiana
SON John M Baker M 27y Indiana
DAU Frances Baker F 18y Indiana

James married Victoria Holton. Victoria was born in 1839 in Kentucky, USA; died in 1865 in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, USA; was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Alias: Donald

Notes:

Died:
Info from artcile about brother John McNaughton

Daniel married Pamela E. Barton. Pamela (daughter of Pliny Flint Barton and Emma S.) was born on 25 Mar 1832 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 26 Dec 1902 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; was buried on 28 Dec 1902 in Buffalo, Erie, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

New York, State Census, 1892
ErieBuffalo, Ward 24, E.D. 05
Pamela E. McNaughton 60 USA
Pliney B. McNaughton 36 Shipsmith

1900 census USA
Illinois Cook ED 1041 Precinct 1-2 Hyde...ship Chicago city Ward 33
McNaughton Pamela E. boarder widow born March 1832 Pennsylvania 2 children of which 2 alive
Defrees Joseph H. boarder born April 1858 Indiana married 17 years 1 child of which 1 alive
Defrees Harriet M boarder born Feb 1861 New York married 17 years 1 child of which 1 alive
Defrees Donald boarder born Feb 1885 Illinois

Died:
widowed

Notes:

Married:
1860 census USA
residence: , Erie, New York
ward: 9th Ward City Of Buffalo
Daniel Mc Naughton 33 Scotland
Pamella E M Mc Naughton 28 Ohio
Pliny B Mc Naughton 5 New York

1870 census USA
New York
Danl Mcnaughton M 42y Scotland Shipsmith
Pemela Mcnaughton F 38y Pennsylvania
Pliny B Mcnaughton M 14y New York
Hattie Mcnaughton F 9y New York
Mary Schramme F 22y New York domestic servant

1875 census New York
E.D. 3, Ward 10, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States
Daniel Mcnaughton M 47 shipsmith
Wife Prunella E Mcnaughton F 42
Son Pliny B Mcnaughton M 20 clerk shipsmith
Daughter Harriet E Mcnaughton F 14
Servant Alberta Smith F 27 domestic servant


1880 census USA
Buffalo, Erie, New York
SELF D. Mcnaughton M 50 Scotland ship smith
WIFE Pamella Mcnaughton F 45 New York, United States
SON Plyny B. Mcnaughton M 23 New York, United States Clerk In Shop
DAU Hattie Mcnaughton F 19 New York, United States
Geo. Baer M 35 Germany servant
Maggie Scherher F 19 New York, United States servant

Notes:

Souce A standard history of Elkhart County, Indiana : an authentic narrative of the past, with particular attention to the modern era in the commercial, industrial, educational, civic and social development (1916)

Died:
name: John Harris Baker
event: Death
event date: 21 Oct 1915
event place: Goshen, Indiana
age: 83
estimated birth year: 1832
gender: Male
race: W
source location: City Health Office Goshen

John married Harriet E. Defrees on 29 Dec 1858 in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, USA. Harriet (daughter of Joseph Hutton Defrees and Mary Ann McKinney) was born on 28 Apr 1839 in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, USA; died on 3 Apr 1920 in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, USA; was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
name: Harriett E. Baker
event: Death
event date: 03 Apr 1920
event place: Goshen, Indiana
age: 80
estimated birth year: 1840
gender: Female
race: W
source location: City Health Office Goshen