This street likely honors Virginia Wright Hanna (1860-1950), whom historians credit for naming El Segundo in 1911. The city was to be built around Standard Oil’s second oil refinery in California – Point Richmond was the first – so Hanna suggested “El Segundo” as it means “the second” in Spanish. She wasn’t just some random local: her husband was Standard Oil of California general manager Richard Judd “R.J.” Hanna (1860-1934), who laid out El Segundo and probably named its streets. Anyway, Virginia “Jennie” Wright was born in Princeton, NJ and came of age in Asbury Park. There she married R.J. Hanna, who hailed from Franklin, PA, in 1887. They and their children Richard W., Helen, Gertrude, and Virginia lived in Franklin until 1911, when R.J. was hired by Standard Oil to oversee El Segundo. The Hannas themselves chose San Francisco as their forever home.
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