Joel P. Greer (1856 – 1914)
	
Captain J. P. Geer was a member of a well-known family in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. He was a steamboat master on the Willamette and Columbia rivers before coming to the Klondike. He spent a long time on the creeks before being a steamboat master on the upper Yukon River. For a number of seasons he was working with the Barringtons on their boats.((“Old timer is called to his long rest.” //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 31 October 1914.)) He was the Master of the //Quick// in 1903 and Master of the //La France// in 1909.((Jerry E. Green, //Yukon Riverboat Captains.// 2020 website: http://www.users.miamioh.edu/greenje/#G.)) 

Capt. Greer was on the sternwheeler //Vidette// in 1912 when he quit in the fall and went to Oregon to ranch. He was there when he died of a heart attack. A man of lovable disposition, he left a host of friends in the north.((“Old timer is called to his long rest.” //Dawson Daily News// (Dawson), 31 October 1914.)) Captain Greer’s daughter, Olive, was married to Albert Pinska and the couple drowned when the //Princess Sophia// sank in the Lynn Canal in the fall of 1918.((The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, //SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished.// 2018: 91.))