Born: New York. 1824.
Died: Illinois, 1910.
His parents died when he was young. He grew to manhood on a farm near Chardon, Ohio, in a family named King. They were most earnest Disciples and gave this young man an excellent Christian training. He graduated at Williams Medical College in Ohio at the age of twenty-one.
Coming to Stephenson County, Illinois, in 1846, he entered upon the practice of medicine. Finding in his new home no church built after the apostolic pattern, he proceeded to establish one. About two miles west of the village of Oneca, his then place of residence, was the Van Meter settlement. There he established the Mt. Pleasant Church of Christ and ministered to it many years. Of that congregation, Judge Andrew Hinds was an active member.
Later, Dr. Naramore preached in the Baptist chapel in Lena and elsewhere in the county. Meanwhile, he continued in the practice of his profession assiduously. While he never sought any public office, he was a member of the State Legislature in 1859-60, and also a member of the State Constitutional Convention in 1862. He introduced Judge J. M. Baily and R. R. Hitt into public life. He greatly desired to enter the Federal Army during the Civil War, but the men enlisting in a large section of Stephenson County positively insisted that he stay at home and care for their families while they were away. This he did free of charge to all of them.
For twenty-five years he was president of the Old Settlers, Association of that county. He was always firm in his Christian faith. His intelligent conscience permitted no concessions to error or compromise of gospel truth. His sincerity, wide information, admirable spirit and steadfast devotion to high ideals made him a superior Christian man. His fine character commanded the fullest confidence and highest esteem of all his fellow-citizens.