Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Henkin (1881 - 1973) was a prominent Orthodox rabbi in the United States. He was born in Belorussia, and studied at the Slutzker Yeshiva under Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer. He received rabbinical ordination ("semichah") from Rabbi Meltzer, and he was also ordained by Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz and Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, the Aruch HaShulchan. After serving as rabbi in a number of Russian towns, he emigrated to America in 1922. Wikipedia
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