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==Marriage==
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* Martin Petersen (b. 1890 - d. 1949 Fresno, CA)
* Christina Petersen Sorensen (1895-1965)married [[Sor Kristian Sorensen]], who served as an elder at [[Portage Park Gospel Chapel, IL|Irving Park Gospel Chapel]].
* Peter Petersen (1896-1928)
* Anton Nelson Petersen, Jr. (1899-1977)
Meta Mueller Petersen was born July 31, 1861 in Denmark, and immigrated to Chicago in 1889. She died Dec. 23, 1923 in Chicago.
Henry married Alice Wilhelmina Berg.
* Marilyn Petersen Kirshberger married Ferd Leon Kirschberger (b. 1942 Pasadena, CA - d. 2019 Amherst, VA) in 1969 in Los Angeles, CA. Ferd was the son of Ferdinand John Wilhelm Kirschberger (b. 1910 Lutherville, AR - d. 1987 Bloomington, CA) & Lorene Grace Zimmerman Kirschberger (b. 1919 Coldwater, KS - d. 1996 Wichita, KS). Marilyn & Ferd have three children.
=OccupationCareer=
When Henry was 18, he was self-employed as a truck driver. By 1930, he operated a greenhouse service, and was living at 5743 Irving Park Blvd.
=Pre-PB Spiritual Influence=
This church was organized in 1895, and merged in 1947 with Our Savior's United Lutheran Church (org. 1942 @ 2624 N. Fairfield Ave.), which is where Henry's wife Alice was confirmed on April 9, 1922. The merger became Atonement Lutheran Church, which met (1947) on 6740 W. North Ave in Logan Square, Chicago, which presently meets as Mosaic Lutheran Church, advertised as a multi-ethnic, multi-generational church.
=Ministry=
==U.S.==
===California===
In 1957, the [[Pomona Gospel Chapel, CA|Pomona Gospel Chapel]] was launched with Henry and William Bush as keynote speakers.
===Illinois===
====Chicago====
Henry is credited for developing a large Sunday School and Friday night children's meetings in the early years of [[Portage Park Gospel Chapel, IL|Irving Park Gospel Chapel]] in Chicago, [[Illinois]], founded by [[Harold Milton Harper|Harold Harper]], of which, Henry's sister Christina's husband [[Sor Kristian Sorensen|Sor Sorensen]] also shared in leadership. This assembly commended Henry to full-time ministry in 1932.
====Melvina====
Henry was instrumental helping start the [[Melvina Gospel Hall, IL|Melvina Gospel Hall]] in western Illinois in the early 1930's thru his effective visitation ministries around Melvina and nearby Montrose, which served those communities for several years.
===Washington===
Henry ministered broadly as an itinerant helping new works from the 1930's-1950's, and encouraging existing assemblies, including what is now Hope Bible Fellowship, in Seattle, WA. He is also remembered as having given a three week series on Pilgrims' Progress at what is now Tieton Drive Bible Chapel in Yakima, WA. He also served as a conference speaker in 1938 as what is now Cosmopolis Gospel Chapel, alongside Alfred Mace, George Landis, and [[Harold Milton Harper|Harold Harper]].
==Canada==
===British Columbia===
At the dedication service for the launch of [[Granville Chapel, BC|Granville Chapel]] in Vancouver in the spring of 1950 by [[Heather Bible Chapel, BC|Mount Pleasant Gospel Hall]], presently known as Heather Bible Chapel, Henry was invited as the keynote speaker.
===Ontario===
Henry visited South Windsor, [[Ontario]] for six weeks in 1969, to help with visitation and the launch of [[Oakwood Bible Chapel, ON|Oakwood Bible Chapel]], a plant from nearby [[Turner Road Gospel Chapel, ON|Turner Road Gospel Chapel]].
=Death=
* [https://www.newspapers.com Newspapers.com]
** The Daily Advertiser, Lafayette, LA: 4-9-1993, p. 24
* [[History_of_Some_Assemblies_of_Christians_in_the_United_States_and_Canada]] by [[Robert L. Peterson]]