Background
Eugene Monroe Bartlett, Senior, was born on December 24, 1883 in Waynesville, Missouri. He grew up in Sebastian County, Arkansas.
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Eugene Monroe Bartlett, Senior, was born on December 24, 1883 in Waynesville, Missouri. He grew up in Sebastian County, Arkansas.
He attended the Hall-Moody Institute in Martin, Tennessee and graduated from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri.
He wrote Victory in Jesus. Barlett first worked for the Central Music Company, a music publisher in Hartford, Arkansas. In 1918, with David Moore and John A. McClung, he co-founded the Hartford Music Company in Hartford.
He served as its President from 1918 to 1935.
Over the course of nearly two decades, he opened new branches in Nacogdoches, Texas and Hartshorne, Oklahoma. Five years later, he mentored Albert East. Brumley, who attended the institute.
He published The Herald of Song, a monthly magazine about gospel music A prolific songwriter, he wrote many Christian gospel songs such as Everybody Will Be Happy Over There, Just a Little While, He Will Remember Maine, You Can’t Keep a Good Manitoba Down, Take an Old Cold Tater and Wait, and Victory in Jesus.
He died on January 25, 1941.
He was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. Bartlett was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee in 1973. His Victory in Jesus appeared on Hymns, an album by Christian singer Michael West. Smith released in 2014.
