The Missouri History Museum Library and Research Center holds materials relating to the Charter Oak Stove Company. Try a search in our library catalog -- http://www.slrlc.org/search~S2/ -- for references to published material. Our Library Information File -- http://www.mohistory.org/lrc/family-history/get-started/information-file -- includes some additional references to published material about this company. Our Corporations and Industries Collection in our Archives includes a brief history of the company. Our Archives also holds a collection of paper of the Filley family: A0487 Filley Family. Papers, 1740; 1810-1953. 3 boxes; 2 volumes Oliver D. Filley was born in 1806, came to St. Louis in 1829, and served as mayor of St. Louis, 1858-1860. Giles F. Filley (1815-1900) came to St. Louis in 1834. Chauncey Ives Filley (1829-1923) was born in Lansingburg, New York, and came to St. Louis in 1850. He was mayor of St. Louis in 1863; postmaster of St. Louis under Ulysses S. Grant; administrative chairman of the Missouri State Republican Committee; and chairman of arrangements for the opening of Eads Bridge. Augustus Filley was born in 1766. Papers consist mainly of correspondence of Oliver D. and Giles F. Filley to their family in Connecticut, relating to early ventures in the tin and stove manufacturing business. Giles F. Filley's firm, the Excelsior Manufacturing Company, made the famous "Charter Oak" cooking stove. Also includes records pertaining to affairs and public service of Chauncey Ives Filley. These include Chauncey I. Filley's letterbook, 1862, containing only two letters, one of which discusses railway routes between St. Louis and Little Rock and Bismarck and Little Rock, and map of Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts. Also includes personal record book of Augustus Filley, 1874-1818, with information on the Filley family in Windsor, Connecticut, and other genealogical information. This collection contains much of political interest as well as social sidelights on St. Louis history, including data on James O. Broadhead, the Chartrand family, the Civil War, Gen. John B. Clark, the constitutional convention of 1865, the Eads Bridge, James A. Garfield, Samuel T. Glover, Judge Louis Gottschalk, William S. Harney, the growth of the post office in St. Louis, early railroads, Gen. Rosecrans, the early days of St. Louis, St. Louis Gas Company, the Sanitary Fair Commission, Carl Schurz, and transportation, waterways, etc. Cite as: Filley Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis. Dennis Northcott Associate Archivist for Reference Missouri History Museum Library and Research Center