 He spent his youth duck hunting and fishing.Lindholm shipped on his first voyage aboard the ship "Souame", which sailed from Turku in October 1848 with a cargo of timber to Cádiz, returning to Viborg the following May with a shipment of salt.Between September 1849 and August 1851, he sailed on the Russian-American Company ship "Atka" on a voyage that took him to Valparaíso, San Francisco, Ayan, and Petropavlovsk.