Mrs. Pauline Gilmour Hatch (photographic portrait, before 1904)
Pauline Gilmour Hatch (néeGilmour; 1871–1955) was an American composer and hymnwriter.
Life
Pauline Gilmour Hatch, only daughter of Henry Lake Gilmour, was born at either Cape May,[1] or Wenonah,[2] New Jersey, on April 3, 1871. She manifested a great love for music at an early age, which was encouraged and cultivated in a musical atmosphere, William J. Kirkpatrick being her first instrumental teacher. Later she received a diploma from the South Jersey Institute, Bridgeton, New Jersey, and also took a course at Richard Zeckwer's Conservatory of Music in Philadelphia.[1]
She married H. Morgan Hatch, of Delair, New Jersey, on October 30, 1903. Hatch was a member of a family of early Camden settlers. He worked as a Pennsauken tax collector, director of Merchantville National Bank and Trust Co. and proprietor of the former N. J. Auto and Supply Co. He died in 1952.[2]
Pauline lived for many years at Pennsauken. She died at her home, 6900 River Rd., Pennsauken, on Wednesday, November 9, 1955, aged eighty-four, and was buried in Arlington Cemetery, Pennsauken.[2]
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