Early Life and Education
Enroth was born in Weehawken, New Jersey, the son of Swedish immigrants. His family attended an independent evangelical church in West New York in New Jersey. He met his future wife Ruth-Anne Johnson at high school, and she went on to a career in nursing. They were married in 1960 and have two daughters Kara and Rebecca.
Enroth majored in sociology and French in his undergraduate studies and in 1960 was awarded the B.A. degree from Houghton College, Houghton, New York. He was encouraged by his teacher at Houghton College J. Whitney Shea (brother of the gospel singer George Beverley Shea) to study the social sciences.
He proceeded to post-graduate studies in sociology at the University of Kentucky where he obtained both an M.A. in 1963, and in 1967 the Ph.D. in medical sociology. His doctoral dissertation examined the health care systems in rural eastern Kentucky, where small impoverished communities of snake-handling Pentecostal churches existed.
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