Jane Johnson Endsley (c. 1848–1933) was a successful Dallas businesswomen and community leader.
A former slave, Endsley eventually ran one of the city's largest railroad-yard coal and log businesses.
[2] Endsley took over as the manager of the 100-acre family farm when her husband died in the late 1880s or early 1890s.
[2] She sold her farm, retaining the timber rights on the land, and set up her own rail-yard coal and log business in Dallas.
[2] Endsley and her daughter Maggie, reached out to the hungry and poor, especially during the Great Depression.