| Albert S. Osborn  AKA Albert Sherman Osborn
Born: 26-Mar-1858
Birthplace: Sharon, MI
Died: 14-Dec-1946
Location of death: Montclair, NJ
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Scientist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Questioned Documents The first American prominent in the field of forgery detection, and author of the seminal Questioned Documents (1910, reprinted many times), an exhaustive work indispensible even today. By his efforts, courts began to accept the presentation of forged documents as scientific evidence. He founded the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners on 2 September 1942. Osborn also designed a comparison microscope which was later manufactured by Bausch & Lomb.
Father: William Berkeley Osborn (b. 17-Jun-1830, d. 18-Aug-1909)
Mother: Jane Cole
Wife: Beth Dunbar (m. 1888)
Son: Albert D. Osborn (forged document analyst)
University: Michigan State University
University: PhD, Colby College
American Society of Questioned Document Examiners President (1942-46)
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Freemasonry
Author of books:
Questioned Documents (1910, nonfiction)
The Mind of the Juror as Judge of the Facts, or, The Layman's View of the Law (1937, nonfiction)
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