Eben McBurney Byers (April 12 1880 – March 31 1932) was a wealthy American socialite athlete and industrialist. He won the 1906 U.S. Amateur in golf. He earned notoriety in the early 1930s when he died from multiple radiation-induced cancers after consuming a popular patent medicine made from radium dissolved in water.
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