lantation
slaves, and was noted as "a natural mathematician." His
mother was deeply religious.

Mr. Harllee is a self-made man, for he taught himself to
read and write after being taught to spell about a third
through Webster's blue-back spelling book, and with this
small beginning he laid the foundation for a collegiate
education and for the active work of life.

In 1881 he was elected register of deeds in Richmond county,
N. C., where he had taught school for a number of years, and
in 1882 was appointed United States postal clerk on the
Carolina Central Railway and transferred to Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railway, which position he held till
1885. In 1879 he was graduated at the Biddle University,
Charlotte, N. C., with honors. In 1885 he went to Texas and
engaged in the profession of teaching, and served for a
number of years as principal of the Grammar School No. 2 of
Dallas, Texas. Afterward he was promoted to the
principalship of the Colored High School of the Dallas City
Public Schools, which position he now holds.

Professor Harllee has taken an active part in the
educational work of his state, and has served as president
and secretary of the Teachers' State Association of the
state of Texas; he has also held the position of
Superintendent of the Colored Department of the Texas State
Fair for eight years, and still holds that position. He is a
practical staff reporter on the Dallas Morning News, Dallas,
Tex.

Mr. Harllee was married to Miss Florence Belle Coleman of
Dallas, Tex., 1891, and has three children, Lucretia,
Chauncey Depew and Norman W., Jr.

He is author of "Harllee's Tree of History," a new and
graphic method of teaching history; also Harllee's
"Simplified Long Division," a new graphic method of teaching
long division; also Harllee's "Diagram System of Geography."

He has for a number of years advocated the establishment of
a State University for the youth of Texas, and is also
working with the Rev. W. Lomas and D. Rowens to establish an
industrial school for his people at Dallas.

He is also chairman of the Y. M. C. A. board of education of
Dallas, and along with Messrs. Rice, Darrell, Polk, Weems
and Anderson is conducting a successful Y. M. C. A. night
school for all ages