A minor Fortean—a major leap.
Doubt 14 (Spring 1946) has a couple of credits to someone named Yetter. At least one clipping came from an old issue of the Oakland Tribune. Not much to go on . . . except: the May 1946 issue of Round Robin, publication of N. Meade Layne’s Borderlands Science Research Association prints part of a letter from Harry G. Yetter. And, as it happens, there are public records for someone named Harry G. Yetter living in the Oakland area from around this time. (Remarkably, Yetter is a fairly common name, and there are several Yetters living in the East Bay during the 1940s.) So, let’s make that leap: the Fortean Yetter is the same as the Round Robin Yetter.
Thus, we have Harry Garford Yetter, born 19 April 1911 in Fallon, Nevada, to Harry J. and Caroline Yetter. Harry the elder was a descendant of German immigrants via Massachusetts. He worked as a cashier. Harry the younger had four younger siblings—which accords with the letter that he wrote to Round Robin. By 1930, he had moved to Oakland, where he lived with an uncle—the uncle was a bank secretary and Harry was working with an investment house. The family was well-off, the uncle and aunt owning a home valued at $10,000. In 1937, he married Nevada Evelyn Warren, a fellow Nevada transplant to the Bay Area. Three years later, having only graduated from high school, Yetter was a broker, living with his wife’s parents in Oakland. His father-in-law was a chocolate dipper for a candy company.
Doubt 14 (Spring 1946) has a couple of credits to someone named Yetter. At least one clipping came from an old issue of the Oakland Tribune. Not much to go on . . . except: the May 1946 issue of Round Robin, publication of N. Meade Layne’s Borderlands Science Research Association prints part of a letter from Harry G. Yetter. And, as it happens, there are public records for someone named Harry G. Yetter living in the Oakland area from around this time. (Remarkably, Yetter is a fairly common name, and there are several Yetters living in the East Bay during the 1940s.) So, let’s make that leap: the Fortean Yetter is the same as the Round Robin Yetter.
Thus, we have Harry Garford Yetter, born 19 April 1911 in Fallon, Nevada, to Harry J. and Caroline Yetter. Harry the elder was a descendant of German immigrants via Massachusetts. He worked as a cashier. Harry the younger had four younger siblings—which accords with the letter that he wrote to Round Robin. By 1930, he had moved to Oakland, where he lived with an uncle—the uncle was a bank secretary and Harry was working with an investment house. The family was well-off, the uncle and aunt owning a home valued at $10,000. In 1937, he married Nevada Evelyn Warren, a fellow Nevada transplant to the Bay Area. Three years later, having only graduated from high school, Yetter was a broker, living with his wife’s parents in Oakland. His father-in-law was a chocolate dipper for a candy company.