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.¹⁾ He was the Master of the Quick in 1903 and Master of the La France in 1909.²⁾

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.³⁾ 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 1918.⁴⁾