7. Hatch was literally a self-made man, and the historical record is completely bare until his marriage to Cora Hatch. He apparently awarded himself his M.D. He had apparently tried his hand at a variety of "cures" before settling upon mesmerism. Then he came upon the fifteen-year-old Cora Linn Victoria Scott who was supporting her mother and brother as a trance speaker in the Buffalo-Cleveland area. Hatch saw her, correctly, as Dr. Tarrant saw his daughter, as his ticket to the big time.