Yett, Porter W.

Porter W. Yett was born in Tennessee in 1892, and came to Portland with his family while still a young child. In 1911, at the age of 19, he joined with William D. Wheelwright and Sanderson Reed to form the City Motor Trucking Company, delivering paving materials to construction projects around Portland. Mr. Yett was the manager of the company. In 1927, while continuing to operate City Motor Trucking, he became interested in transit concrete mixers, trucks which mixed concrete while they were en route to the construction site. The following year he was one of the founders of Swigert, Hart & Yett Company which specialized in concrete mixing and delivery. He made several improvements to the trucks over the years. An active athlete and outdoorsman, he was involved in baseball, boxing, football, fishing and hunting. He died in 1962.