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)