Pauline Gilmour Hatch

Mrs. Pauline Gilmour Hatch (photographic portrait, before 1904)

Pauline Gilmour Hatch (; 1871–1955) was an American composer and hymnwriter.

Life Pauline Gilmour Hatch was the only daughter of Henry Lake Gilmour, a dentist and Methodist hymnwriter, editor, and choir director. She was born at either Cape May, or Wenonah, 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.

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.