Eugene Monroe Bartlett

Eugene Monroe Bartlett
Born December 24, 1883
Waynesville, Pulaski County, Missouri
Died January 25, 1941
Education Hall-Moody Institute
William Jewell College
Occupation Songwriter, publisher
Spouse(s) Joan Tatum
Children Gene Bartlett, Jr.
Charles Bartlett

Eugene Monroe Bartlett, Sr. (a.k.a. E.M. Bartlett) (December 24, 1885 – January 25,1941) was an American Christian singer, songwriter and producer of gospel music. He wrote Victory in Jesus.

Early life

Eugene Monroe Bartlett, Sr., was born on December 24, 1883 in Waynesville, Missouri.[1][2][3] He grew up in Sebastian County, Arkansas.[1][2] He attended the Hall-Moody Institute in Martin, Tennessee and graduated from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri.[1][3]

Career

Barlett first worked for the Central Music Company, a music publisher in Hartford, Arkansas.[1][3] In 1918, with David Moore and John A. McClung, he co-founded the Hartford Music Company in Hartford.[1][2][3] He served as its President from 1918 to 1935.[1][3] Over the course of nearly two decades, he opened new branches in Nacogdoches, Texas and Hartshorne, Oklahoma.[3]

He was the founder of the Hartford Music Institute in 1921.[1][3] Five years later, he mentored Albert E. Brumley,[2] who attended the institute.[1][3]

He published The Herald of Song, a monthly magazine about gospel music.[1][3]

A prolific songwriter, he wrote many Christian gospel songs such as Everybody Will Be Happy Over There, Just a Little While, He Will Remember Me, You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down, Take an Old Cold Tater and Wait, and Victory in Jesus.[1][3]

Personal life

He married Joan Tatum in 1917.[1][2] They had two children: Gene Bartlett, Jr., and Charles Bartlett.[1][2]

Death

He died on January 25, 1941.[1] He was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.[1]

Legacy

Bartlett was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee in 1973.[1][2]

His Victory in Jesus appeared on Hymns, an album by Christian singer Michael W. Smith released in 2014.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Greg Freeman, E. M. Bartlett (1885–1941), aka: Eugene Monroe Bartlett Sr., Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, 7/25/2013
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Gospel Music Hall of Fame: Inductees Archive: E.M. Bartlett, Sr. (1973)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 W.K. McNeil, Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music, Routledge, 2013, p. 30
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