Probably named for Pomona cofounder Robert Miller Town‘s mother Eleanor Miller Town (1818-1854). When Pomona was laid out in the late 1870s, several streets were named after founders’ wives. R.M. Town wasn’t married at that time – he wed Lillie May Fisher in 1881 – so we can assume his late mother was honored instead. (A reader’s letter to the Pomona Daily Progress in 1903 asserted such.) Most of Pomona’s original “feminine” streets wound up being renamed, thanks to some passive-aggressive misogyny (see Main Street), but Eleanor and Rebecca remain unchanged.
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