Jessamine Hoagland
Jessamine Hoagland | |
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 Jessamine Hoagland, from a 1921 publication | |
| Born | September 1879 Illinois |
| Died | March 11, 1957 Hinckley, Illinois |
| Occupation(s) | Banker, advertising executive |
Jessamine G. Hoagland (September 1879 – March 11, 1957) was an American banker and advertising executive, based in Chicago.
Career
Hoagland was manager of the women's department at Continental and Commercial Trust & Savings Bank in Chicago,[1] then manager of the savings department of the National City Bank of Chicago, and in charge of advertising and publicity for the bank.[2] She was best known for her striking window displays at the bank;[3] for example, she installed a money-counting and wrapping machine in the bank's window, to draw crowds of spectators.[4]
Hoagland left National City Bank of Chicago to open her own advertising business in 1926.[5] She was president of the Women's Advertising Club of Chicago,[6] and the only woman to serve on the executive board of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. She was on the board of directors of the Financial Advertisers Association.[7][8][3]
Hoagland was treasurer of the Eleanor Association's "Eleanor Model City", a women's citizenship program, in 1915,[9] and a member of the Chicago Political Equality League, a pro-suffrage organization.[10] She was a founder and president of the Federated Council of Business and Professional Women.[11][12][13] In 1932 she served on President Hoover's anti-hoarding committee.[14] She wrote Key Women of America (1938).[15] In 1940 and 1941, working with social reformer Harriet Vittum,[16] she was executive vice-president of Roll Call of American Women, a Chicago group opposed to US involvement in World War II.[17][18][19]
Personal life
Hoagland died in 1957, aged 77 years, in Hinckley, Illinois.[11][20]
References
- ^ "Chicago Brevities". Trust Companies. 19: 65. July 1914.
- ^ "Woman Honored by Advertisers". The Bankers' Monthly. 36: 50. November 1919.
- ^ a b "My Best Advertisement". Judicious Advertising. 19: 37–39. July 1921.
- ^ "Those Show Agents". The Billboard. 33: 96. September 17, 1921 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "Jessamine G. Hoagland to Start Own Business". Printers' Ink. 134: 174. January 28, 1926.
- ^ "Women Rise in Ad Game". The Kansas City Star. 1922-06-28. p. 13. Retrieved 2022-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Miss Jessamine Hoagland Elected an Officer" Bankers Magazine 104(1922): 415-416.
- ^ "Chicago Advertising Women Elect Officers" Judicious Advertising 19(1921): 95.
- ^ "Girls Start Own City; Model Municipality Within Confines of Chicago". The Washington Post. 1915-05-09. p. 10. Retrieved 2022-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Illinois suffrage associations; 2 of 2". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
- ^ a b "Jessamine Hoagland". Advertising Age. 28: 73. March 25, 1957 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ McLaughlin, Kathleen (1933-07-14). "Novelist Asks Sane Advance of Feminism". Chicago Tribune. pp. 19, 21. Retrieved 2022-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "The Chicago Convention of the B.P.W.C. Federation". The Daily News Leader. 1933-07-31. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mrs. Ora Snyder Speaks Before B.P.W.C. Meeting". The Jacksonville Daily Journal. 1932-03-10. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Library of Congress Copyright Office (1940). Catalog of Copyright Entries. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 43.
- ^ "Berrien Women Organize to Keep U.S. Out of War". The Herald-Press. 1940-07-27. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mothers Rally in Drive to Shun Overseas War". Chicago Tribune. 1940-07-07. p. 117. Retrieved 2022-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Volunteers Aid 2 Committees in Anti-War Drive". Chicago Tribune. 1941-01-19. p. 9. Retrieved 2022-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Congressman Gets 11,000 Protests". Chicago Tribune. 1941-01-23. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Miss Jessamine G. Hoagland". Chicago Tribune. 1957-03-13. p. 34. Retrieved 2022-01-15 – via Newspapers.com.
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