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ANTHONY TEPASKE, lawyer, educator and legislator, died at his home in Sioux Center, Iowa, February 11, 1946; born in a log cabin in Minnesota in October, 1868, of Dutch parentage; reared on a farm, and lived in Sioux county since 1874; graduated from both Grinnell college and Harvard university, receiving an A. B. degree; taught in rural school and four years later taught English and Greek in an academy; passed the Iowa state bar examination in 1897; engaged in the general law practice thirty-four years; served as county attorney of Sioux county twelve years; mayor of Sioux Center ten years, member of Sioux Center school board three years, vice president of First National bank, Sioux Center, twenty years; trustee N. W. Junior College and Academy twenty years, a Sunday school teacher thirty-seven years; a member of the Dutch reformed church and a Republican; married Agnes Dykstra in 1903, who passed away in 1909, leaving three children, Amy, Maurice and Adelphus; served as a member of the Iowa house of representatives in the Forty-fourth, Fiftieth and Fifty-first General Assemblies.