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Show NORMAN B. REAM IS DEAD Now York, Feb. 9. Norman llja Ream, financier nnd director In mnnyv railroads, banks and Industrial corAl poratious, died hero today otter an operation for Intestinal troublo from which ho had suffered tor somo.tlmo. Ho was in his sevonty-first year. r Ho served through tho civil war , and afterwards becamo a clork In a' store in Harnedsville, Pa. In 1871 ho went to Chicago and becamo a ltvo stock and grain merchant. ' I Mr. Ream was one of tho1 dlroc- I tors and organizers ot tho United I States Steel corporation. Ho .was many tlmos a millionaire," probably 1 ranking among tho twenty-flvo rich- I est men In this country. - -1 I |