Minnie A. Buzbee
Minnie A. Buzbee | |
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 Minnie A. Buzbee, from a 1923 trade journal | |
| Born | Minnie Ann Buzbee April 6, 1880 Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Died | January 29, 1955 Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Occupation(s) | Banker, advertising executive, clubwoman |
Minnie A. Buzbee (April 6, 1880 – January 29, 1955) was an American bank executive. She specialized in financial advertising, and was in charge of the advertising and publicity departments of several banks in the 1920s.
Early life
[edit]Minnie Ann Buzbee was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, the daughter of John Stephen Buzbee and Emma Spears Buzbee.[1]
Career
[edit]Buzbee began her career in banking as secretary to George W. Rogers, a bank vice president in Arkansas.[2][3][4] By 1919 she was the publicity department manager of American Bank of Commerce and Trust Co., based in Little Rock.[5] She was a founder and secretary of the Advertising Club of Little Rock.[6] She spoke at the World's Advertisers Convention in Atlanta in 1921.[7][8]
In 1922, Buzbee joined the Harvey Blodgett Company, based in New York[9][10] and Minnesota,[11][12][13] where she established the service department. While in New York, she was a member of the New York League of Advertising Women.[14] In Minnesota, she was head of advertising at Hennepin County Savings Bank,[15] and became manager of the advertising department at Minneapolis Trust Company in 1925.[16]
In 1927, Buzbee moved back to Arkansas, and joined the staff of the Burton E. Vaughan advertising agency. She was a national director of the Financial Advertisers Association.[17] In 1929, she was elected regional vice president of the Association of Bank Women.[18] She was also active in the National Federation of Business and Professional Women, organizing a national campaign on thrift and financial security in 1930.[19] In 1946, she wrote a history of the Winfield Memorial Methodist Church in Little Rock.[20]
Buzbee wrote about women in banking for The Arkansas Banker in 1919: "The war has bridged over many years in the economic development of women, and neither the women themselves nor the world at large will ever be content to have them go back to their old status," she declared.[2]
Personal life
[edit]Buzbee died in 1955, in Little Rock.
References
[edit]- ^ Who's who in Little Rock, nineteen hundred and twenty-one : an accurate biographical record of men and women of Little Rock, Ark., prominent in various lines of civic activity. Little Rock : Who's Who Publishers. 1921. p. 44 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ a b Buzbee, Minnie A. (August 1919). "Are Women in the Banks to Stay?". The Arkansas Banker. 3: 5–9.
- ^ "Miss Minnie A. Buzbee, Little Rock". The Arkansas Banker. 3: 15. May 1919.
- ^ "Bank of Commerce Employes Banquet". Arkansas Democrat. 1918-05-23. p. 6. Retrieved 2021-07-25 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Financial Advertisers Association Holds Sixth Annual Convention in Atlanta". The Arkansas Banker. 5: 34–35. July 1921.
- ^ "Miss M.A. Buzbee Wins Prize for Best Copy". Associated Advertising. 12: 20. February 1921.
- ^ "Financial Advertising". The Arkansas Banker. 5: 43. May 1921.
- ^ "Ad Writing is New Work That is Attracting Women". Daily Arkansas Gazette. 1919-10-22. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-07-25 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Accepts Position with New York Ad Concern". Arkansas Democrat. 1922-06-25. p. 18. Retrieved 2021-07-25 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "'Small Town' Girls Not Lost in Big Cities". Arkansas Democrat. 1923-02-25. p. 21. Retrieved 2021-07-25 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "A New Blodgett Manager". Bankers Monthly. 39: 95. August 1922.
- ^ "Minnie Buzbee Becomes Manager New York Office of Harvey Blodgett Co". The Bankers Magazine. 105: 360–362. August 1922.
- ^ Buzbee, Minnie A. (February 1923). "The Woman in the Case: Why Trust Advertising Should be More Generally Addressed to Women". Trusts Companies. 36: 205–207, 270.
- ^ "Miss Minnie A. Buzbee". The Bankers Magazine. 106: 1139–1140. June 1923.
- ^ Buzbee, Minnie A. (September 6, 1924). "Standards vs. Rules for Bank Employes". Commercial West. 46: 16.
- ^ "Miss Buzbee Assumes Charge of Minneapolis Trust Company Advertising". Trust Companies. 40: 545. April 1925.
- ^ "What Banks and Bankers are Doing". Bankers Magazine. 114: 329. February 1927 – via ProQuest.
- ^ "Association of Bank Women Holds Annual Meeting". Bankers Magazine. 119: 855. November 1929 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Meade, Eleanor (1930-01-20). "Minnie A. Buzbee, Banker Advises Women Investors". The Standard Union. p. 9. Retrieved 2021-07-25 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Buzbee, Minnie Ann (1946). "Some Highlights in the History of Winfield Memorial Methodist Church, Little Rock, Arkansas". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 5 (2): 141–153. doi:10.2307/40018408. ISSN 0004-1823. JSTOR 40018408.