Jessamine Hoagland

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]

Hoagland died in 1957, aged 77 years, in Hinckley, Illinois.[11][20]