An American examiner of questioned documents who founded the discipline as a science in North America. His 1910 book Questioned Documents became the standard reference, his handwriting comparison testimony was crucial in the Lindbergh kidnapping trial, and he established the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners in 1942. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account NationalitySourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountFounded questioned document examination as a science in North America and wrote its standard reference work. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountQuestioned Documents, 1910 1 Albert S. Osborn
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In Group: Specialists in Documents, Anthropology, Linguistics, Accounting and Art, Lead sentenceQuote, In Group: Specialists in Documents, Anthropology, Linguistics, Accounting and Art, Lead sentence
Albert Sherman Osborn (1855-1946) is considered the father of the science of questioned document examination in North America.
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Wikidata Q4711166, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Wikipedia: Questioned Document Examination
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