M. Favor, was an American vaudeville comedian, singer and musical theatre performer who was one of the most popular stars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

He was born in New York City, the son of Franklin Cushman Favor and his wife Lydia, née Lowe.

Among his other early successes were "Say Au Revoir, But Not Goodbye" (North American, 1894), "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)" (Edison, 1894), and "My Best Girl's a New Yorker" (Columbia, 1895).

[3] These included comic numbers for Edison, Columbia and other companies, such as "Hamlet Was A Melancholy Dane", "Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?"

(1901), "On a Sunday Afternoon" (1902), "Bedelia (The Irish Coon Song Serenade)" (1903), "I Think I Hear a Woodpecker Knocking at My Family Tree", and "Pocahontas" (1906).