Sheen, Captain F. Marion

Submitted by Mike Miller

Captain F. Marion Sheen is a prominent figure in New Orleans business life, being president of time Dennis Sheen Transfer Company, Inc., and for a member of years has been keenly interested in everything affecting the port. He is a member of the Orleans Levee Board.

He is a son of the late Dennis Sheen, who founded the transfer business of which his son is now president. This business was started soon after time close of the Civil war, and is the oldest organization of its kind in the city. Dennis Sheen, a native of Ireland, came to America and first settled in Rhode island. He was a volunteer soldier in the Union Army, and was for part of his services stationed at New Orleans during time occupation of the city by General Butler's troops. After the war he remained here, spending a long and useful life; a life successful in business and devoted to time best interests of the city in every way. He was generous and public spirited and for some time served as administrator of public works.

His son, Captain F. Marion Sheen, grew up in New Orleans, acquiring his early education in the local schools and since early manhood has been identified with time work of the Dennis Sheen Transfer Company. Inc. For some years he has been its president. Through this business he has come in close contact with the handling of freight and export and import business of time port of New Orleans. No doubt it was due to his long familiarity with the physical necessities of this second port of America, and also on account of his well known patriotic spirit and bight business qualifications, that he was appointed by Governor Fuqua in 1924 to a place on the Orleans Levee Board. This board has the most important and serious function in time state of Louisiana, since in its care lies the protection through levee work and otherwise of lands and properties the value of which is almost incalculable.

Captain Sheen took the position on this board at the time when time great project of time spillway and seawall at Lake Ponchartrain was being inaugurated, a project which Captain Sheen approved in its entirety. This project is now in course of being carried out, and according to time highest engineering authorities available will give permanent protection from floods to the great city of New Orleans and its environment.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 24, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.