Abraham Turgeon was a notary

Civil law notary

Civil-law notaries, or Latin notaries, are lawyers of noncontentious private civil law who draft, take, and record legal instruments for private parties, provide legal advice and give attendance in person, and are vested as public officers with the authentication power of the State...

 and political figure in Canada East

Canada East

Canada East was the eastern portion of the United Province of Canada. It consisted of the southern portion of the modern-day Canadian Province of Quebec, and was primarily a French-speaking region....

. He represented Bellechasse

Bellechasse (provincial electoral district)

Bellechasse is a provincial electoral riding in the province of Quebec, Canada. Located in the Chaudière-Appalaches region, the riding was created in 1867...

 in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada

Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada

The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada was the lower house of the legislature for the Province of Canada, which consisted of the former provinces of Lower Canada, then known as Canada East and later the province of Quebec, and Upper Canada, then known as Canada West and later the...

 from 1842 to 1844.

He was born in Saint-Michel

Saint-Michel-de-Bellechasse, Quebec

St-Michel is a village of about 2,000 people about 20km east of Lévis, in the Bellechasse Regional County Municipality of Quebec, Canada. It is a mostly rural community, and it was chosen as one of the top 20 nicest villages in the province of Quebec. Route 281 passes through it.- See also :*...

, Bellechasse County, the son of François Turgeon and Geneviève Bauché. Turgeon apprenticed as a notary with Louis Turgeon

Louis Turgeon

Louis Turgeon was a notary, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Beaumont, Quebec in 1762, studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, articled as a notary and was licensed to practice in 1792. He set up his office at Saint-Charles near Quebec City. He was named a justice of...

, qualified to practise in 1804 and set up office in Saint-Gervais

Saint-Gervais, Quebec

Saint-Gervais is a village of 1,900 people in the Bellechasse Regional County Municipality, part of the Chaudière-Appalaches administrative region of Quebec, Canada....

. He served in the militia during the War of 1812

War of 1812

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, later reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1814, he was named a justice of the peace

Justice of the Peace

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; Turgeon also was a commissioner of roads and census commissioner for Hertford County. In 1819, he married Monique Goulet. Turgeon was elected to the assembly in an 1842 by-election held after Augustin-Guillaume Ruel

Augustin-Guillaume Ruel

Augustin-Guillaume Ruel was a notary and political figure in Canada East. He represented Bellechasse in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1842....

 accepted an appointment as district registrar; he did not run for reelection in 1844. Turgeon died in Saint-Michel at the age of 68.

His sister Geneviève married his cousin Louis Turgeon

Louis Turgeon

Louis Turgeon was a notary, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada.He was born in Beaumont, Quebec in 1762, studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, articled as a notary and was licensed to practice in 1792. He set up his office at Saint-Charles near Quebec City. He was named a justice of...

, who served in the assembly for Lower Canada.