John Lawrence Goheen (December 10, 1883 – February 3, 1948) was an American missionary, educator and administrator, agriculturist, social worker, and writer who spent most of his career working in India.

Goheen was born on December 10, 1883[2] in Kolhapur,[3] in India, where his parents were stationed as American Presbyterian missionaries.

She received her early education in Chefoo, China, where her father, Hunter Corbett, served as an American missionary.

He served a long term as executive secretary of the West India Mission of American Presbyterian Missionaries.

After Goheen's appointment to the Allahabad Agricultural Institute, Jane 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.

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

The Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has a collection of John Goheen's incoming and outgoing Correspondence from 1910 to 1947.