Cheeloo University
Arthur L. Carson (May 29, 1895 – April 11, 1985) was an American missionary and educator who served as president of Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Philippines from 1939 to 1953. Carson was born on May 29, 1895 in Tionesta, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Pennsylvania State College and Cornell University, Carson served as a missionary for the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. He was assigned in China from 1921 to 1939 where he was engaged in agricultural work from 1923 to 1926 in the locality of Weihsien, Shantung Province, and later on as director of the Rural Institute of Cheeloo University in Tsinan, Shantung Province from 1931 to 1939.