C. Irving Ditty dating history

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Cyrus Irving Ditty better known as C. Irving Ditty (September 26, 1837 - October 3, 1887) was a Baltimore, Maryland lawyer, real-estate developer, political campaigner, election fraud investigator, and a senior revenue collector appointed by US President Chester A. Arthur. Ditty was a cavalry officer for the Confederacy, and after the war continued to work in support of the Democratic-Conservatives. However, after he spoke out against his party's state of corruption, he was nearly killed by a mob. After this, his sympathies began to lean Republican; President Grant commissioned Ditty as one of the "visiting statesmen" sent to the South to witness the vote count. He was also a businessman who invested in real-estate; one of his projects was the suburb of Irvington, Baltimore (named for him), built on his wife's inherited farm on the western edge of Baltimore.