Abbie B. Rich Hillerman

Abbie B. Rich Hillerman (November 20, 1856 – July 12, 1945) was an American suffragette and prohibitionist active in Oklahoma Territory and later Oklahoma. She was known as the "Mother of Prohibition" in Oklahoma.

Early life and family Abbie B. Rich was born into a Quaker family to Lucinda Mendenhall and Phineas Rich near Kokomo, Indiana, on November 20, 1856. She moved to Kansas in 1873 and earned an education degree from Kansas State University. After graduation she began her work in the temperance movement in Seward County, Kansas by serving as the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union president. She married Phineas P. Hillerman, an attorney, in 1879 and they had three children together.

During World War I she spoke across the nation at the request of Herbert Hoover about food conservation. She declined the position of president of the Oklahoma WCTU in 1920 after winning re-election. In 1925 she wrote History of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Indian Territory, Oklahoma Territory, and State of Oklahoma: 1888–1925 and was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1938. After moving to Tulsa, she served as the city's chapter president from 1932 until her death on July 12, 1945. She's buried at Rose Hill Memorial Park, in Tulsa.