Biography of 	Sheen, Captain F. Marion Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by 	Mike Miller September 2000

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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.