Carlotta C. (Carlotta Cherryholmes) Greer

Born in Akron, Ohio, Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer lived from 1879 to 1965 and built her career as an educator as well as an author. Reliable library and public-domain records connect her name with a substantial body of home-economics writing that was widely used in schools.

Greer is especially known for books such as School and Home Cooking, A Text-Book of Cooking, Foods and Home Making, Foods for Home and School, and Your Home and You. In the preface material and catalog records for these works, she is identified as a department head in Cleveland schools, including East Technical High School, and her writing reflects that classroom background: practical, orderly, and focused on teaching real skills.

Her books sit at the meeting point of cooking, nutrition, and everyday household management. Read today, they offer more than recipes—they show how home economics was taught to generations of students, with an emphasis on method, thrift, and making the science of daily life understandable.