California Biographies Mendocino and Lake Counties, California Transcribed by Peggy Hooper This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Source: History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California With Biographical Sketches History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry Illustrated, Complete In One Volume Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914 ERNEST ENDERLIN.� An industry which is still in the incipient stage in Lake county, the raising of milk goats and production of goats' milk, has a most able advocate in the person of Ernest Enderlin, now a resident of Lower Lake, where he has been settled since 1905. Mr. Enderlin is a native of Baden, Germany, born December 25, 1879. When he was four years old his parents brought their family to America, arriving at San Francisco, Cal., about 1883-84 � father, mother and eight children. The parents are residents of the Lower Lake precinct in Lake county, having a forty-acre farm in Little High valley, at Spruce Grove. Mr. Enderlin is now sixty-eight years old, Mrs. Enderlin sixty-four. Of their family, Frieda (a half sister of the rest) is now the wife of Christian Eskelson, of San Mateo, Cal., proprietor of a creamery; Louise is married to E. B. Hinton, clerk in a mercantile establish- ment at Chico, Cal. ; Mary Magdalena is the wife of A. P. Mefford, a farmer, of Calistoga; Ernest is next in the family; Henry is a farmer, operating the Steinhart ranch ; Sophia is the wife of Ralph Hopper, of Lower Lake ; Hattie is the wife of Jens Nielson, a farmer at Ukiah, Mendocino county; George is employed on the farm belonging to the State Agricultural College at Davis, Cal. Ernest Enderlin attended school in San Francisco, and when a youth began a four years' apprenticeship to the trade of machinist in the shops of the Pacific Rolling Mills (now the Risden Iron Works) in that city. Mean- while, however, when seventeen years old, he came to Lake county and for two years was located at Lower Lake, returning to San Francisco to finish his apprenticeship. Subsequently he was employed as a machinist at the Dow Pump Works, Eagle Gas Engine Company and United Iron Works at Oak- land, continuing thus until a few years after his marriage. In 1905 he re- turned to Lower Lake and bought his present home in the western part of the town, having between three and four acres of ground and a comfortable house. Of late years he has done little at his trade, being engaged principally as a professional nurse, in which work he has proved very successful, his congenial personality and skillful attention winning the highest praise from all who have had need of his services. Some time ago Mr. Enderlin began to take an interest in the subject of producing goats' milk, which at the present time has a market value of fifty cents per quart, being rich in the butter fats which are so nutritive and easy of digestion. The difficulty at present in this country is to get stock goats for breeding purposes, of the milk varieties, as the government has stringent quarantine regulations against the foot-mouth disease, barring all suspicious importations. There is no disease among the goats in Lake county, but the number is limited. For the last three years Mr. Enderlin has given attention particularly to the breeding of his herd, and he now has fifteen head of high- grade Toggenburg-Saanen milk goats. Milk goats are worth from twenty- five dollars to seventy-five dollars apiece, and a good animal yields from two to four quarts of milk daily. Mr. Enderlin estimates that there is probably about one hundred thousand acres of unoccupied brush land in Lake county which would furnish proper pasture for goats, and when eaten down by them could easily be prepared for orcharding, ready for the planting of apple, pear and olive trees, or vineyards. The industry has gigantic possibilities in the county. Condensed goat milk would solve the perplexing question of infant feeding in many a community, and condensing factories, Roquefort cheese factories and even sanitariums where invalids, especially dyspeptics, could be benefited by the milk diet, are some of the features which the development of this business might bring out. Mr. Enderlin has given considerable time to the study of this problem, and he has done much writing on the subject, contributing articles to live stock and agricultural papers, including the Goat Journal. He is local correspondent for the Lake County Bee and the Kelsey- ville Sun, as well as other papers, and he is doing his best to start a movement in favor of the project which he feels would add to the riches of the county and bring benefit to many, from the standpoint of health as well as financial rewards. When twenty-two years old Mr. Enderlin was married in San Francisco to Miss Eva Marie Rousseau, and they have had six children, all of whom are vet at home, namely: Blanche, Evelyn, Rousseau, Milton, Harold and Euvelle. Mr. Enderlin is well known in the local fraternal bodies, being a member of the Lower Lake Blue Lodge and a Master Mason, and a past grand of Clear Lake Lodge. No. 130. I. O. O. F., of Lower Lake.