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Under the eves…Volume 1 Issue 3 1850’s Panama City
  • March 19, 2017/
  • Posted By : Patti Perino/
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When we last left Henry…

 

In 1850, Panama City was over crowded due to the thousands who were waiting for a ship to arrive and take them to San Francisco, accommodations were poor and Yellow fever was raging.

When Henry Miller arrived, he found out that the town’s only butcher had fallen ill with the fever.  Henry was never one to miss an opportunity, with the assistance of some of his fellow passengers; he purchased the butchers tools and set up shop to provide meat to the stranded population.  Soon Henry and his partners were making money hand over fist.

In May of 1850, Henry got the fever and he lay in a private hospital until August.

By the time he had recovered enough to visit the shop, his inexperienced partners had ruined the business beyond hope of recovery.  Henry decided to sell out.  When all of the bills had been paid he had scarcely enough for his passage to San Francisco.  He later told people, “If I hadn’t got the fever when I was in Panama, I would have stayed there because the opportunities were very great to make money.”

Edited by Charles Sawyer, Interviews by Ralph Milliken, One Man Show Henry Miller in the San Joaquin, (Los Banos: Ralph Milliken Museum Society, 2003)

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Under the eves…Volume 1 Issue 2 New York to Panama
  • March 5, 2017/
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 He was on his way from New York to San Francisco in 1850; he had to cross the Isthmus of Panama. When he got to Panama City, he was to pick up another ship, which would take him to San Francisco.  However, first he had to cross the Isthmus of Panama.  Henry and some of the men traveling with him hired a man and a pack mule to guide them and transport their possessions to Panama City.  Miller when later discussing the trip stated, “We had a long sack with clothes in it, at night the natives took their mules back home and with them took a great deal of the stuff belonging to the other men.  I took special precaution to watch the mule that carried my goods and I sat up and watched him all night.”

A railroad was built in 1855, but to late to help Henry get to his next port.

When he arrived in Panama City, there was not a ship to be found.  All of the ships had weighed anchor and sailed to California, the crews had heard of the gold strike and where anxious to make their fortunes.  “Gold Fever” had struck again.

Edited by Charles Sawyer, Interviews by Ralph Milliken, One Man Show Henry Miller in the San Joaquin, (Los Banos: Ralph Milliken Museum Society, 2003)

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