R. Jacob Joseph

As noted by Menachem Butler and HebrewBooks.org, today is the yahrtzeit of the first and only chief rabbi of New York, R. Jacob Joseph.

R. Nosson Kamenetsky (Making of a Godol, p. 399 n. s) notes that according to R. Joseph's monument, Joseph was his middle name and not his last name. However, R. Dov Katz in his Tenu'as Ha-Mussar (vol. 2 pp. 368-384) assumes that Joseph was his last name.