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{{Infobox person
| name = John Lawrence Goheen
| image = John Lawrence Goheen Ichalkaranji.jpg
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1883|12|10}}
| birth_place = [[Kolhapur]], [[Bombay Province]], [[British India]] (now [[India]])
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1948|2|3|1883|12|10}}
| death_place = New York, United States
| occupation = [[Mission (Christian)|missionaries]], [[Agricultural science|Agriculturist]], writer
| spouse = Jane Lea Corbett
| relatives = [[Hunter Corbett]] (father-in-law)
| nationality = Indian
}}

'''John Lawrence Goheen''' (December 10, 1883 – February 3, 1948) was an American [[Mission (Christian)|missionary]], educator and administrator, [[Agricultural science|agriculturist]], social worker, and writer who spent most of his career working in [[India]]. He made a major contribution to literacy through the Bombay Literacy Campaign of 1939. He established Adult Education Associations in various parts in India with a slogan "Every home a literate home".<ref name="INDIA SHALL BE LITERATE">{{cite book|last=Laubach|first=Frank|title=INDIA SHALL BE LITERATE|publisher=National Christian Council , Nagpur|year=1940|edition=1|pages=85, 104|isbn=9781406712759|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z0oijL25FNgC&q=J+L+Goheen&pg=PA104}}</ref> He promoted religious organizations for literacy conferences.

==Early life==
He was born on December 10, 1883<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yW5LAAAAIAAJ&q=John+Lawrence+Goheen |title=Hunter Corbett and his family – Google Books |accessdate=September 20, 2010|last1=Smith |first1=Harold Frederick |last2=Corbett |first2=Charles Hodge |year=1965 }}</ref> in [[Kolhapur]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?ei=QqqQTOuAOIXIvQOz8q3HCw&ct=result&id=yW5LAAAAIAAJ&dq=John+Lawrence+Goheen&q=kolhapur#search_anchor Hunter Corbett and his family Harold Frederick Smith, Charles Hodge Corbett College Press, 1965 Page 93]</ref> in [[India]], where his parents were stationed as American [[Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)|Presbyterian]] missionaries. When he was seven years old, his parents sent him to [[Wooster, Ohio]] in the United States for education.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?ei=QqqQTOuAOIXIvQOz8q3HCw&ct=result&id=yW5LAAAAIAAJ&dq=John+Lawrence+Goheen&q=kolhapur#search_anchor Hunter Corbett and his family Page 94]</ref> He graduated from [[College of Wooster|Wooster Academy]] in 1902 and from the [[College of Wooster|University of Wooster]] in 1906.

From 1920 to 1921, he was enrolled in special courses in agriculture at the State [[University of California, Davis|Agricultural College in Davis]], California. He was director of physical education at [[Occidental College]] and [[Franklin College (Indiana)|Franklin College]], and also served as athletic director in a high school in [[Cleveland]], Ohio.

He married Jane Lea Corbett in 1908. Jane was born in [[Tacoma, Washington]] in 1886. She received her early education in [[Yantai|Chefoo, China]], where her father [[Hunter Corbett]] served as an American missionary. She took her college training in the United States, graduating from the [[College of Wooster]] in 1907.

==Missionary work in India==
In 1910 John and Jane Goheen accepted an appointment from the [[American Presbyterian Mission]]aries for missionary service in [[Sangli]] in western India.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Y7LVAAAAMAAJ&q=John+Lawrence+Goheen&dq=John+Lawrence+Goheen&hl=en&ei=QqqQTOuAOIXIvQOz8q3HCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAQ The First Presbyterian Church of Franklin, Indiana]</ref> The Goheens arrived in India in 1911 and soon after he was placed in charge as the Principal at Sangli Boys School. He transformed the school into an Industrial and Agricultural Educational Institute and instituted an extension service as The Sangli Moveable School.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/findingaids/fa.cfm?record_id=222 |title=Goheen Family Papers, 1864–1951 |publisher=History.pcusa.org |date=April 23, 2010 |accessdate=September 20, 2010}}</ref> This brought improved agricultural techniques to the villages surrounding Sangli. He was appointed as a member of Bombay Literacy mission. He served a long term as executive secretary of the West India Mission of American Presbyterian Missionaries.

===Administrator of Ichalkaranji===
Narayanrao Babasaheb Ghorpade, the Ruler of [[Ichalkaranji| Ichalkaranji State]], which is near Sangli, requested Goheen to administer the Ichalkaranji State while Ghorpade was visiting Europe. Goheen accepted the request and took the position of an administrator of the state in then [[Bombay Presidency]] of [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British India]]. He worked as administrator of Ichalkaranji state from 1930 to 1934. Soon after taking the charge of the office in Ichalkaranji, he was very much impressed with the administration of the ruler, as well as the spirit and enterprise which pervaded in Ichalkaranji State, a territory of about 80 villages and Ichalkaranji town. He wrote a book about Ichalkaranji State called ''Glimpses of Ichalkaranji''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=IWdZTaJdc6UC&pg=PA192&dq=John+Lawrence+Goheen&hl=en&ei=QqqQTOuAOIXIvQOz8q3HCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=John%20Lawrence%20Goheen&f=false The United States in Asia: a historical dictionary By David Shavit Page 193]</ref>

===Allahabad Agricultural Institute===
In 1944, Goheen was elected as a principal of [[Allahabad Agricultural Institute]], one of the oldest agricultural institutes in India located in [[Allahabad]] in north [[India]].<ref>website= http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/findingaids/fa.cfm?record_id=222</ref>

===Jane Goheen===
His wife Jane Goheen worked as a teacher in academic and [[Bible study (Christian)|Bible classes]] in Sangli School. After Mr. Goheen's appointment to the Allahabad Agricultural Institute, Jane Goheen taught in the school of home economics, where Christian girls were trained to teach the women of India better ways of living and caring for their families. During her last few years of service, she worked with the women of Kolhapur and surrounding villages, organizing them more effectively for the work of the church. She retired in 1952 and died in 1977.

==Death==
In September 1947 Goheen went to New York for specialized medical treatment. He died on February 3, 1948<ref>New York Times February 4, 1948</ref> at the age of 64. His collection of manuscripts, photographs, and correspondence is kept at the Presbyterian Historical Society in [[Philadelphia]].<ref>{{cite book|title=National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2TLiAAAAMAAJ&q=John+Lawrence+Goheen+manuscripts|year=1986|publisher=Library of Congress}}</ref>

==Recognition==
In 1937 the [[College of Wooster]] presented John Lawrence Goheen with an honorary Doctor of Law degree for outstanding accomplishment in the mission field.

==Books==
*Glimpses of Ichalkaranji
*Keeping Milk Goats in India (1933)

==Archival Collection==
The [[Presbyterian Historical Society]] in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], has a collection of John Goheen's [http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rg-222 incoming and outgoing Correspondence from 1910 to 1947.]

==See also==
*Mahatma Gandhi, letters to Americans Page 144 – Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1998 Intellect: Volume 67
*Collected works ( Letter to J L Goheen on Page 369), Author [[Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]] . Publisher- <small>Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1984</small>
*India Shall Be Literate, ''By'' Frank C. Laubach 1940

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Find a Grave|67885735}}

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