Show BIG HIG FIN FINANCIER DIES IN NEW YORK HOSPITAL NE NEW NESs YORK Feb 9 Norman Jorman Norman B. B Ream financier an and director In many man railroads banks and industrial corporations corpora corpora- died diet her hero In ill a n hospital today It Is understood that Mr Ream died led after an operation fo for Intestinal trouble from which ho had suffered for tor somo years He was In his seventy first tar aar Mr Ul Ream was rated as 3 ono one of or tho the mo moat mott l prominent capitalists In tle the United States anlas was vas particularly well known knOWlI In tho the West Vest where he be began his ills career lie lIe- was cne of or the directors and organizers of ot the United States Steel corporation corpo a di director dl- dl rector roctor of ot the Baltimore Ohio Erie Eric P Pare re Marquette MJ Seaboard Air Ir Line nn und other railroads railroad and was watt a member m of ot most moat of ot their tI O commUte s. s Mr Ir Ream was join In Somerset count county Pennsylvania and as us a youn oun man d di divided dl- dl vided his hie ii time between n farm work arid and teaching school Ho lie ervI r l il 11 through h the Civil CI war and afterwards r Js became n a d rl l lIn K KIn In a store In III Hal lIh Pa la In 1871 he went to Chicago and became a livestock live IIvo stock and grain merchant He was wall one of ot the tho pioneers pioneer In LII the organization of or tho steel el industry and wt war 8 active In bringing together r the tho various various various va va- va- va rious Western steel plants which formed farmed the Federal Steel com company pan When this was absorbed h by the United States Steel corporation In 1901 Mr Ir Ream b became came n a director of ot the corpor corporation Un and ani ha hat had l since served as a n member of or It Ha its finance com corn |