Desabaye-Chagaray, Eloise, educator, born in Paris, France, Feb. 1, 1792 ; died in New York city, Jan. 28, 1889. She was descended from the Huguenot family D'Amberbas, which went to San Domingo after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Her father, Pierre Robert Prosper Desabaye, owned property in San Domingo and lived in Paris. The revolution under Toussaint L'Ouverture deprived him of the estate, and in 1797 he removed with his family to the United States. Eloise was educated in New Brunswick, M.J., and opened the first school of her own in Greenwich Street, New York, in May, 1814. She subsequently removed it to North Moore Street, St. John's Square, Fifteenth Street, and Madison Avenue, and during her long career as an educator taught the children of the best-known families in the city. She married a Frenchman named Chegaray, and, when too old to teach, lived in Philadelphia and New Brunswick till 1887, when she made her home in New York city.
