Francis Randall Appleton (August 5, 1854 – January 2, 1929) was an American lawyer and prominent New York society man during the Gilded Age.

[7] He was educated at private schools and prepared for college at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.

From 1884 until his retirement in 1910, he was a member of the firm of Robbins & Appleton,[10] which was founded by his father and were the New York agents for the Waltham Watch Company.

She was a daughter of Sarah Egleston and Charles D. Lanier (1837–1926),[16] a close friend of Pierpont Morgan.

[17][18] She was a granddaughter of banker James Lanier and a great-granddaughter of Major General John Paterson who was on George Washington's staff during the American Revolutionary War.