Wilhelmina D. Hills (1837-1917) was born in Ohio and died in Wichita, Kansas. She married Henry J. Hills in 1857 and they moved to Wichita in 1871. Hills was active in the early life of the city. She was an officer of the relief organization instituted during the Grasshopper Plague of 1874, and she was a charter member of both the First Baptist Church and the Hypatia Club, Kansas' oldest women's club. Hills joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 4, 1898, and was known as the second Christian Scientist in Wichita. She was listed in the directory of The Christian Science Journal as a Christian Science practitioner from 1901 to 1910. Although Hills expressed interest in studying with Mary Baker Eddy, there is no record of her doing so.

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