Call Number:

003.020

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

0.08 linear ft. (1 volume)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Newbold Hough Trotter ethics notebook (HCS.003.020), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1843

Creator:

Trotter, Newbold Hough, 1827-1898

Form:

Notebooks and Lecture notes

Abstract:

One volume of Newbold Hough Trotter's notes on ethics for a class at Haverford College. The notes are from a course in ethics by Daniel B. Smith, which was conducted in 1843, and detail several ethical discourses prominent at the time.

Newbold Hough Trotter was born January 24th, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He entered Haverford College in 1841, and left in 1844. During his life he was a clerk, hardware merchant, and an artist. He was a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Society of Artists. He was also a member of the Germantown Home Guards and fought at Antietam. His artwork was featured in the Centennial Exhibit in 1876, and animals tended to be the subjects of his work. He married Annie M. Dawson on October 10, 1855. He had two children: Joseph Trotter and Ann Hough. He died February 21st, 1898, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The collection is one volume of Newbold Hough Trotter's notes on ethics for a class at Haverford College. The notes are from a 1843 course in ethics by Daniel B. Smith. The notebook is labeled as "volume one" and its contents are spereated into different books of ethics. The notes are handwritten, and are detailed with lecture notes and textual notes.

Materials are arranged chronologically.