Juliet Greer

Greer was born in Rochester, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Howard Greer and Aberilla Ecoff Greer.[1] She graduated from Vassar College, where she was president of the class of 1895.[2] She pursued further studies at the University of Chicago and at Columbia University.[3] Her youngest sister, Florence Greer, was a fellow Vassar alumna, and a noted educator as principal of Brooklyn Heights Seminary.[4]

Greer taught physics and biology at Pratt Institute from 1898[5] to 1908. She joined the faculty at Oregon State University (then known as Oregon Agricultural College, or OAC),[6] as dean of the School of Domestic Science and Art, in 1908.[7] She resigned from OAC in 1911,[8] along with her four assistants.[9][10] She was succeeded as dean at OAC by Henrietta W. Calvin.[11]

In 1916, she joined the faculty at Brooklyn Heights Seminary, as a science teacher.[12] She also read one of her husband's professional papers at the Pacific Slope Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in San Diego that year.[13] She was still associated with the Brooklyn school in the early 1930s,[14] before her sister's death and the school's closure in 1933.[4]

In the 1930s, Bridwell was an officer of the Progressive Citizens of Georgetown.[15]

Greer lived in Los Angeles, caring for her ailing mother,[16] before she married entomologist John Colburn Bridwell in 1912.[17] They had a daughter, also named Juliet Greer Bridwell, born in 1918 in Honolulu, when Bridwell was 43 and her husband was assistant entomologist at the Hawaii Board of Agriculture and Forestry.[18] She died in 1942, at age 70, from a heart attack, at her home near Washington, D.C.[19][20][21]