Charles Rutger DeFreest (July 24, 1852 – May 10, 1901) was a journalist, newspaper editor, and politician from New York.
Shortly after his birth, his father bought and moved the family to a farm in North Greenbush.
[2] He then became the managing editor of the Sunday paper Northern Budget, a position he held until 1892.
[3] In 1875, when Edward Murphy Jr. was elected mayor of Troy, DeFreest was appointed city clerk.
[2] DeFreest died of apoplexy in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn on May 10, 1901, a month after he moved there.