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About the William H. Bush Memorial Library
The library is a member of the North Country Library System, a cooperative public library system consisting of 64 member libraries in Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, and St. Lawrence Counties. NCLS provides delivery, training, information technology, consulting, research databases, shared library
catalog, printing, and outreach services.
2005 Board of Trustees:
President: Frank Corbett
Vice President: Sandra Arthur
Secretary: Cheryl Kelly
Treasurer: Nelson Schwartzentruber
Lawrence Woodhouse
Susan McArdle
Elsie Nafziger
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The library is unique in the small rural community of Martinsburg. It exists through the generosity and forethought of it's benefactor, William H. Bush, who was born and raised in Martinsburg. As a young man, William Bush left this small NY town and headed west to Chicago. With hard work and persistence he became a successful business man.
His biography, Empire Builder In the Texas Panhandle, written by Paul Carson, is an accurate and interesting account of Bush's personal character, family life, and the story of how he became a millionaire. His biography is at the library. By virtue of his love for reading and his memories of his "dear old Martinsburg", he gave liberally to the library while he way yet living and at his death in 1931, left a percentage of income from a trust to continue maintenance od the library. In 1980, the sum became sufficient to build an entirely new structure.
This endowment, along with the support of its patrons and the Martinsburg community offer a wealth of resources to be shared with the public.
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