Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-10

were to be a teacher and tu practice the then new art of photograph
 succeeded in both ambitions At a time when amateur photographers were scarce in rural America, young Ream was an expert and a few months after he left the district school, at Il, he was teaching school himself in preparation for q course at the state normal school.
 Volunteered for the War.
 AIr. Ream volunteered when Presi- dent Lincoln called for troops in 1861 lie enlisted as private ill the Eighty fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers. and fought through the war under Nc Ciellan, Butler, Grant and other com manderS, taking part in most of the campaigns of the ArEey of the Poto- mac, and winning promotion to q first lieutenancy on the battlefield. He was severely wounded in action near Sa- Vannah, Ga, i'll February, 1861, and was hOnorably discharged from the service on account of temporary dis ability.
 For about a year after that he worked as a clerk ill q country store in Pennsylvania. In 1866 he went to Princeton, H., "~1 set up in business for himself as O general Storekeeper. In 1887 he transferred his business to OttumWa, Iowa. He stuck to his pur pose of saving every cent he could against the first oDDoTtunity for em- barking upon q larger venture This opening came in 1871, when Ream re- moved to Chicago and began his real career of success as 9 grain and live stock commission merchant. His pro- gresS was not rapid, but it was sub stantial. He was naturally shreWd, but slow in taking up new things; and he followed the old-fashioned idea of building Q solid foundation for his bus mess before he attempted any specu- lative enterprises.
 His reward, however, was appre- citation at the hands of his associates, and in a very few years he had be- come a. leading member of the Chicago Board of Trade. His interests then broadened rapidly. In 1876 he had married Miss Caroline Putnam, a daughter of Dr. John Putnam, at Madison, V. Y. In 1885 he became a member of the New York Stock eX- change. In 1888 he withdrew from the commission business and announced his intention of devoting his time to real estate. street railway. railroad and other corporate interests.
 Few men of the last generation cons spicuOtiS for men with nation wide business interests-have been identi- fled with more great American enter prises than Mir Rean1. He helped to organize the National Biscuit com pany and the United States Steel cor
 
 ant in the federal governments suit for the dissolution of the latter. He was an officer and director in many of the largest railway and trust com panies. electric and power plants, and various public utilities. In the eighties he was organizer of the syndicate that built the Rookery building, the first steel frame sl1yscraper.
 MT. Ream has made his headqudT- terS in New York for many years, with a personal office at A Broad street. and was connected with the fol lowing corporations: Vice president and director & the Central Safety De- posit company; director of the Balti- more & Ohio railroad, the Brooklyn Heights Railroad company. the Brook lyn Rapid Transit company, the Chi cago x Erie Railroad company, the Chicago &, Alton Railroad company, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad company. the Cincinnati, Hamilton 6 Dayton Railroad company, the Cumberland corporation. the Erie Railroad company, the First National bank of Chicago, the Franco-American Financial association, the International Harvester company, the Metropolitan Trust company of the city of New York. the Mount Hope Cemetery as sociation, the National Biscuit com pany. the New York, Susquehanna 6 Western Railroad company, the Penn sylvania Coal company, the Pere Mar quette Railroad company, the Pull man company. the Reliance company, the Seaboard Air Line railway, the Se- curities company, the Sussex Realty