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Petersen visited the islands again in 1905 and in 1910–1911. In 1909, he was a driving force behind A/S Vestindisk sukkerfabrik's acquisition of Jacob
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on 3 July. After the war he returned to his uncle's company where he worked as a traveling salesman in the provinces. In 1866 he moved to
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when her husband died in 1849 but the children were separated when she died six years later. Holger
Petersen joined the household of schoolmaster Carl Mariboe. He became a merchant's apprentice in his maternal uncle Arnold Philipsen's wholesale company on
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building on the same street (No. 44) in 1875. His company purchased the entire complex in 1888. It was subsequently adapted and expanded several times, most notably in 1889–1890 and 1906–1907.
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