the immediate success of the work led olney to give up teaching and devote himself to authorship. leaving hartford in 1833, he settled in southington, connecticut, until 1854, when he moved to stratford. his text-books (1831–52) included other geographies, a series of readers, a "common school arithmetic", and a "history of the united states". he also compiled "a family book of history", "psalms of life", poems, and other works.