October 4, 1907 issue of the Bayfield County Press:AGED JUDGE DIESSamuel Brisley Passes Away at His Home in AshlandJudge Samuel Brisley of Ashland, aged 86, a veteran of the Crimean War, died in that city Wednesday morning.Judge Brisley spent three years in the Crimea, having previously served in putting down the Irish rebellion. He was shipwrecked at Sebastopol and fought in the battles of Inkerman, Alma and Valla Valla. He also witnessed the charge of the Light Brigade. He was an artilleryman and while he was loading his gun, the Cossacks charged the British lines and he was struck in the face by a saber by a Cossack rider. He was in the hospital at Carma when the famous English nurse, Florence Nightingale, arrived there. He was a resident of Ashland for twenty years and at various times was acting judge of the municipal court. For ten years he was the bailiff in the circuit court. All the prominent Catholic bishops and churchmen throughout the state were his personal friends. He was a member of the Order of the Jesuits. Mr. Brisley was a prominent Prohibitionist and one of the best known men in the northern part of Wisconsin and throughout the state. He was the father of eighteen children and was very wealthy.Contributed by John Griener
