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Jesse Olney was born on October 12, 1798, at Union, Connecticut, the eighth of the ten children of Ezekiel Olney and his second wife, Lydia Brown. His ancestor, Thomas Olney, emigrated to Salem, Massachusetts, in 1635 and later aided Roger Williams in the founding of Providence. His grandfather, Jeremiah, and his father, as well as many other relatives, were officers in the Revolutionary army. His mother's family was of English stock long resident in America.
Jesse Olney obtained most of his education at Whitesboro, New York. He was a precocious student with a special bent for the classics and geography.
For a few years Olney taught in New York state; then moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where for twelve years, beginning in 1821, he was principal of the Stone School. He was a born teacher; effective pedagogical methods were instinctive with him. Dissatisfied with the classroom manuals in use, he sought to replace them with better ones and shortly proved himself a most successful textbook maker. His first venture was A Practical System of Modern Geography (1828), followed the next year by A New and Improved School Atlas (1829). It was immediately successful.
The study of geography had but recently been introduced into American elementary education and was still a tail to the cosmographical kite. Its texts were dull and uninteresting, quite beyond the comprehension of elementary students. Olney's book was suited to his pupils. Beginning with the simple and known facts of their immediate surroundings, it carried them forward to a knowledge of distant lands and complex phenomena. Rudimental as the method seems now, it was new at the time. The book passed through nearly a hundred editions and millions of copies were sold. There were few American school children of that generation whose ideas of the outer world, both true and false, were not formed by it. If our grandfathers believed that "Italians are affable and polite but they are effeminate, superstitious, slavish, and revengeful, " Olney no doubt must be held accountable.
Three years after the book's appearance he abandoned teaching to devote the rest of his life to textbook writing and to politics. Among his publications of the next twenty years were various readers, the most popular of which was The National Preceptor; or Selections in Prose and Poetry (1829); a common-school arithmetic; a history of the United States; and several new books of geography. Being a firm believer in visual education, he prepared outline maps with accompanying exercises. The success of his textbooks gave him both financial independence and a reputation.
When Olney stood for a seat in the Connecticut legislature in 1835, he was easily elected. For eight terms he represented Southington, where he lived from 1833 to 1854. For two years (1867 - 68) he was state comptroller of public accounts. Throughout his political career his interest lay primarily in education. He was a strong supporter of the movement which culminated in the organization of a state board of commissioners of public schools (1838) and a vigorous advocate of generous appropriations for the support of elementary education. In religion, as in other things, he was a liberal, and in middle life he joined a Unitarian church. In 1854 Olney moved to Stratford, Connecticut, where he died in 1872.
With his textbooks Jesse Olney managed to change the approach to school education in America, simplifying it and making more visual. Olney's most important works: A Geography and Atlas; Common School Arithmetic; A History of the United States; A Family Book of History; Psalms of Life, etc. Being a representative in the state legislature of Southington, Olney organized a state board of commissioners of public schools (1838).
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Jesse Olney was a founding member of the Unitarian Society.
Jesse Olney married Elizabeth Barnes of Hartford in 1829; of their six children one, Ellen Warner (Olney) Kirk, gained some reputation as a writer of fiction.
