He was born in Castelli, Italy, on the 5th of October, 1895, a son of Fileno and Filomena (Candera) Pardi, natives of the same country. The father, who worked at the potter's trade in Italy until he left that sunny land to come to the New World, located in 1903 in Schenectady, New York, where he was employed as a porcelain worker by the General Electric Company for several years. He died in 1909, being survived for a number of years by his wife, who passed away in 1922.