1871 - 1955 Person Name: M. Pauline Gilmour Composer of "[Launch away, believer, on the swelling tide]" in Songs of Praise and Victory Born: April 3, 1871, Cape May, New Jersey.
Hatch was the only daughter of Henry L. Gilmour. She showed a love for music at an early age, which was encouraged and cultivated in a musical atmosphere. William J. Kirkpatrick was her first instrumental teacher. She later 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, Pennsylvania. She married H. Morgan Hatch of Delair, New Jersey, October 30, 1903.
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Showalter, p. 276
Music--
GO FORWARD
JESUS, REFUGE OF MY SOUL
OUR DEARLY LOVED BANNER
PEACE HYMN OF NATIONS
VOLUNTEERS, TO THE FRONT
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Pauline Gilmour Hatch