Background
Defrees, Joseph Holton was born on April 10, 1858 in Goshen, Indiana, United States. Son of James McKinney and Victoria (Holton) Defrees.
Defrees, Joseph Holton was born on April 10, 1858 in Goshen, Indiana, United States. Son of James McKinney and Victoria (Holton) Defrees.
Educated Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, and Northwestern University, Illinois.
Admitted to Indiana bar, 1880. Moved to Chicago 1888. Member Defrees, Brace & Ritter, later Defrees, Buckingham & Eaton.
President Windermere Company Vice president
Civic Federation, 1912-1914. Director Chicago Legal Aid Society, 1912-1913.
President Chicago Association Commerce, 1914. Vice president Chamber Commerce United States of America, 1915-1919 (chairman of the executive committee, 1916-1919.
President, 1920-1921).
Member Illinois Chamber Commerce.
Member President's Conference on Unemployment, Washington, District of Columbia, 1921. Member United States Section Inter-American High Commission, 1st Pan American Financial Congress, 1921-1922.
Married Harriet McNaughton, October 4, 1882.