Guide to the Fred Henry Sexauer Papers,
[ca. 1928]-1978

Sexauer was born in Kingston, Illinois and came to New York in 1914. In 1915 he purchased a farm outside of Auburn, N.Y. Soon after starting farming, he became active in a local cooperative, and in 1919 became a director of the Dairymen's League's Cooperative Association (now Dairylea, Inc.). In 1921 he was elected to the League's executive committee and in 1928 became President. During the Roosevelt administration, he played an active role in the Committee for the Nation and the Committee for Constitutional Government.

Correspondence, photographs, reports, and related original source material concerns Sexauer's career as an agricultural leader and documents his work with organizations including the Dairymen's League, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, and the National Milk Producers Federation. There is also information relating to New York Highway Users and improvement of rural roads. Individuals mentioned include Edward Rumely, Frank Gannett, and Ezra Taft Benson.

Also, "Currents in the Life of Fred H. Sexauer," (6 volumes with index), an inscribed copy of Stable Money by Irving Fisher, and an inscribed copy of "Eastman's Chestnuts."