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Since 1971, The Sutliff Museum, located on the second floor of the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library has been one of the hidden gems of history in Warren, Ohio. As a part of their 50th anniversary celebration, a small exhibit will be displayed at the Ohio Statehouse.  

For 50 years, the Sutliff Museum has been dedicated to preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting its collection and educating the community on the significance of the Sutliff family's influence on the local and national levels, the Victorian era, and the anti-slavery movement. Programs at the Sutliff Museum include lectures, bus trips, and museum education boxes offered to area schools.

The Sutliffs were a pioneer family in Trumbull County, coming from Connecticut. They settled in Vernon, Ohio, and succeeding generations were influential civic leaders through 1955. Brothers Levi (1806-1864), active in the Underground Railroad in Trumbull County, and Milton (1808-1880), Ohio Supreme Court Judge and Senator, supported the Abolition movement and the Underground Railroad financially and politically. They both attended the organizational meeting of the National Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia in 1833.

Levi's daughter, Phebe T. Sutliff, a scholar and the first woman president of Rockford (Illinois) College, was instrumental in the formation of many civic organizations in Warren. She was also a candidate for Congress in 1924. The Sutliff family's place in local history is revealed in the Sutliff Museum, endowed by Phebe to the Warren Library Association, upon her death in 1955.

This exhibit includes personal items and communications from some of the Sutliff family members as well as images and objects from the interior of the Museum.