Jessamine Hoagland Explained

Jessamine Hoagland
Birth Date:September 1879
Birth Place:Illinois
Death Date:March 11, 1957
Death Place:Hinckley, Illinois
Occupation: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; for example, she installed a money-counting and wrapping machine in the bank's window, to draw crowds of spectators.[3]

Hoagland left National City Bank of Chicago to open her own advertising business in 1926.[4] She was president of the Women's Advertising Club of Chicago,[5] 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.[6] [7] [8]

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.[20] [21]

Notes and References

  1. July 1914. Chicago Brevities. Trust Companies. 19. 65.
  2. November 1919. Woman Honored by Advertisers. The Bankers' Monthly. 36. 50.
  3. September 17, 1921. Those Show Agents. The Billboard. 33. 96. Internet Archive.
  4. January 28, 1926. Jessamine G. Hoagland to Start Own Business. Printers' Ink. 134. 174.
  5. News: 1922-06-28. Women Rise in Ad Game. 13. The Kansas City Star. 2022-01-15. Newspapers.com.
  6. https://books.google.com/books?id=4VM2AQAAMAAJ&dq=Jessamine+Hoagland&pg=PA415 "Miss Jessamine Hoagland Elected an Officer"
  7. https://books.google.com/books?id=THxIAQAAMAAJ&dq=Jessamine+G.+Hoagland&pg=RA5-PA95 "Chicago Advertising Women Elect Officers"
  8. July 1921. My Best Advertisement. Judicious Advertising. 19. 37–39.
  9. News: 1915-05-09. Girls Start Own City; Model Municipality Within Confines of Chicago. 10. The Washington Post. 2022-01-15. Newspapers.com.
  10. Web site: National American Woman Suffrage Association Records: Subject File, 1851-1953; Illinois suffrage associations; 2 of 2. 2022-01-15. Library of Congress. en.
  11. March 25, 1957. Jessamine Hoagland. Advertising Age. 28. 73. Internet Archive.
  12. News: McLaughlin. Kathleen. 1933-07-14. Novelist Asks Sane Advance of Feminism. 19, 21. Chicago Tribune. 2022-01-15. Newspapers.com.
  13. News: 1933-07-31. The Chicago Convention of the B.P.W.C. Federation. 5. The Daily News Leader. 2022-01-15. Newspapers.com.
  14. News: 1932-03-10. Mrs. Ora Snyder Speaks Before B.P.W.C. Meeting. 4. The Jacksonville Daily Journal. 2022-01-15. Newspapers.com.
  15. Book: Library of Congress Copyright Office. Catalog of Copyright Entries. 1940. U.S. Government Printing Office. 43. en.
  16. News: 1940-07-27. Berrien Women Organize to Keep U.S. Out of War. 5. The Herald-Press. 2022-01-15. Newspapers.com.
  17. News: 1940-07-07. Mothers Rally in Drive to Shun Overseas War. 117. Chicago Tribune. 2022-01-15. Newspapers.com.
  18. News: 1941-01-19. Volunteers Aid 2 Committees in Anti-War Drive. 9. Chicago Tribune. 2022-01-15. Newspapers.com.
  19. News: 1941-01-23. Congressman Gets 11,000 Protests. 4. Chicago Tribune. 2022-01-15. Newspapers.com.
  20. March 25, 1957. Jessamine Hoagland. Advertising Age. 28. 73. Internet Archive.
  21. News: 1957-03-13. Miss Jessamine G. Hoagland. 34. Chicago Tribune. 2022-01-15. Newspapers.com.

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