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Show BANKER, 82, WORKS ON HIS BIRTHDAY NTW YORK. March :. George! F Baker, banker, eh", in addition to a reputed fortune of f 3oo.000.OUO has the reputation of attending more dl-' rectors' meetings than n other fl nancter In New York celebrated his eighty-second birthday Monday at his desk Id the Firs: National bank He spent an extraordinary busy day, his associates declared, "cleaning up" 1 an unusual amount of business. The banker began his business life 70 years ago as a $. a meek grocer's boy. graduating to a night watchman's job at IS weekly. He became a bank clerk and bank examlnerr In turn and. In 183. helped found one of. the city's first banks, where he became be-came president In four year |