From 1852 to 1930, Paradise was shaped by a long succession of pioneers and community members whose names include Eugene F. Kunkle, Durville Bequette, Charles Deleplain, Hinrich Buschmann, John Wake, Benjamin F. Butler, William Leonard, Willaim Dresser, James Detro, Austin B. Satterlee, Emphriam Comstock, William Chapman, Emmitt Miller, Samuel Knox, William Armstrong, Alexander McClure Elliott, Andrew Lewis Bennum, Abner W. Bunnell, Benjamin James Jarboe, J. Cook, Stephen W. Henderson, John Holder, B.K. Erwin, Henry Calvin Hoose, Emanuel E. Hoskins, John A. Nunneley, John Strong, Henry Miles Strong, Dodridge D. Proctor, Frank Leininger, William Adams, Frances Strong Breese, G.S. Skillin, Frank E. Levulett, Joseph Copland, Charles Mc Dowell, Nelson Stetson, Alexander Tait, Henry Hyde, William Lockerman, Charles Foster, William Norton, John Powers, Matthew Edge, Mrs. Sarah A. Jenkins, James Pearson, Benjamin B. Russell, Richard Ballew, John Howard, George R. Hill, Charles Van Ness, J.L. Chandler, N.H. Van Fossen, Alfred A. Nickerson, Dr. William B. Lovett, Joseph Moore, George B. Pearce, Frederick W. Day, C.A. Oliver, Henry Tamerius, Joseph F. Wayland, Charles Stearns, Mrs. Annie E. Vine, Sophia S. Pence, George Henry Crossette, Samuel Odgen, Dr. D.W. Wasley, Wm. A. Galbraith, C.E. Smith, James E. Alley, Annie Warren, May Baker Hatch, Bryon O. Clark, William Lewis, C.M. Burkett, A.G. Ingalls, John Wagstaff, Lillian Compton Fletcher, Martin V. Roe, I.G. Hamma, Ralph Berry, Elsie Hamburger, George N. Libby, E.P. Alderson, Iva Charlton Collett, Emma Blackburn, H.A. Lydell, George Christian Bille, Charles Neilson, Ralph M. Brown, Carl Heinke, William Stratton, Perry Noble, Alie N. Gobin, Dixon J. Thomas, Dr. Dorothy C. Load, Fred Hawkes, and Richard C. Hammer.