Thomas Francis Egan, son of Thomas Egan and Mary Lynch, was born 31 March 1881, at Woodford, County Galway, Ireland.

In October of 1908 he set sail for the United States on the ship Celtic, and made his way to St. Louis, Missouri where his and Dan's sister, Katherine, was living. In February of 1909, Tom headed off to Grant County, Nebraska and began working for his brother, Dan.

He soon had a Kinkaid on Wild Horse Flats, south of Whitman, Nebraska. In 1926 he bought a farm at Gretna, Nebraska and worked it for five years before returning to make his home with his brother's widow, Lizzie, and children until his death in 1958.

Thomas remained a confirmed bachelor his entire life.